PIEMONTE DOC BIANCO PASSITO
Vintage
2021
Appellation
Passito DOC
Grape variety
cortese
Alcohol
14%
Bottle size
0.5l
Serve at
10/12 °C
Info
Contains Sulphites - Product of Italy
Tasting notes
Its colour is amber yellow with golden nuances that remind the acacia honey produced at La Raia. La Raia’s Passito has a well-balanced sweetness with a strong acidic character that are typical of the Cortese grapes. The taste of sundried apricots is clearly perceptible, as well as peaches in syrup, candied fruit and acacia honey keeping all the elements together.
Pairings
Its sweetness and sapidity make it very adaptable with food, especially along cheese and desserts. Like an aged Barolo, it can be considered as a meditation wine.
Why we like it
The grapes are subject first to a green harvest in the vineyard in order to facilitate the maturation of the best bunches and to safeguard their complete wholesomeness. After the manual harvest in small baskets, the bunches are delicately put on racks in the wine cellar, in a ventilated and cool area in order to benefit the drying
process which takes about one month to reach the desired concentration. This is the most delicate step in the whole process, a good drying is achieved only with
berries which remain intact until the end of the process. The crushing of the whole bunches, the fermentation in stainless steel, the subsequent aging in French oak
and finally the ageing in the bottle.
