Wine of the Day - Fissata Blonde Fizzy White Wine

The Chris Weir Experience

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The Italian term frizzante refers specifically to the strength and vigor of the bubble or effervesce in a wine, much the way allegro refers to the tempo of a musical composition. Our Fissata Blonde is a frizzante wine, meaning that it is a gently sparkling wine with light and delicate effervescence. This style is ideally suited to the varietal it is made from, a Sicilian Muscat.

For the Fissata we looked to Piedmont, Italy’s Moscato d’Asti model as our starting point. We wanted a wine with crowd-pleasing drinkability that was light on its feet but richly perfumed. To achieve this we opted to blend the best attributes of a Sicilian Muscat and California Muscat (from Northern California, specifically from around Lodi and Woodbridge).

Our base Muscat comes from a trusted Sicilian grower with whom we were annually already working with on another project. We buttressed this Sicilian component with the California Muscat. The result is a lightly sparkling wine that oozes notes of white flowers, mandarin orange and peach. It is as playful to drink as it is serious with food, pairing beautifully with everything from vanilla pound cake to blue cheese. This gentle sparkler is also just a fabulous way to end a sultry summer evening.

· Retail Price: $18.99

· Vintage: N/V

· Varietal: Moscato Terre Siciliane IGP

· Alcohol: 11.5%

· Region: Italy

· Winemaking: We blended our drier Sicilian Muscat to the desired sweetness with our Lodi Muscat component, all-the-while “initiating” the wine’s spritz via a process learned in both Prosecco & the Napa Valley, at our world-famous-for-bubbly Hammondsport, NY facility.

Tasting Info

· Color: Pale lemon

· Body: Light to medium.

· Smell: Abundant nose of white flowers, peach, mandarin orange and nectarine.

· Taste: Dominant mandarin orange note on the palate. Also, some dried apricot with hints of ripe melon and nectarine.

Sommology

· Sommology Code: S332

· Suggestions: Spicy dishes (Indian/Thai curry, buffalo chicken), shellfish (crab, lobster, shrimp), breakfast pastries, pancakes, prosciutto, chicken, light fish, ham, brie, biscotti, grilled peaches, peach shortcake, succulent cherry pie, creamy cheesecake, orange sorbet, glazed pastries, nougat, fruit tarts, cream desserts and those incorporating mascarpone cheese. It’s also great with lemon-poppy-seed cake or plain pound cake with caramel sauce, walnuts, banana slices and possibly dried apricots.

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