FRIZZANTE offers a selection of our favourite sparkling wines. Whether you are after a formidable apéritif, a rustic, robust pétillant or col fondo for the table, or something truly special when celebration is in order, you’ll find it here.
JÉRÔME LAMBERT
De L’Air 2021
Loire, France
This remarkable pétillant of Chenin Blanc comes from forty year old vines planted over schist and was aged on the lees in bottle for just over a year before disgorgement. Jérôme harvests the fruit for this wine at the same time as Coule de Source, resulting in an incredibly vinous take on the genre, that unlike many, is true to both variety and terroir. A brilliant gold in the glass, it is wonderfully delicate, mineral and fine.
Chenin Blanc
CERRUTI
Ri-Fol 2022
Piedmont, Italy
This has to be one of our favourite sparkling wines for any season. Ezio’s Moscato begins fermentation in concrete, before being put into bottle with some grape must he has kept aside since the harvest. The wine is refermented in bottle and there is no disgorgement, making for a vibrant col fondo with soaring aromatics, gentle bubbles and a finish that’s all lime zest and chalk. It is the perfect wine to bookend a meal.
Moscato
LE COSTE
Pizzicante Rosato 2020
Lazio, Italy
This gorgeous sparkling rosato is made from Aleatico, destemmed and fermented on the skins for just twelve hours before being pressed off to vats and finally into bottle to finish fermentation. After eighteen months of rest on the lees, the wine was disgorged and spent a further year in bottle before release. The result is a gorgeous, pale sparkling rosato with gentle bubbles that carry refreshing notes of blood orange, red berries and rose.
Aleatico