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Cinque Terre Schiacchetrà


Curiosity The dry stone walls and the terraces are all man made and form part of the landscape.
 
Tips This wine responds well to aging and may even reach 20 years. The bottles should be laid horizontally in a cool damp cellar. This wine is recommended for the recipe Two coloured cake with raisins
 
Caratteristiche Region: Liguria
Taste: sweet, pleasant, dry
Colour: golden yellow with amber streaks
Fragrance: pleasant and fragrant, with traces of apricot and acacia honey
Alcoholic strength: 14° C
Associated food: strong spicy cheese, desserts
Served at: 16° C.
Glass: for sweet wine
 
 
Description Grape growers have modified the nature of the environment when does not favour the cultivating grapes, by first building dry-stone walls then terraces where vines can then be planted.

After the Vermentino and Albarola type grapes are first selected and gathered and then left on trellises where owing to the sugars in the grapes, mould is formed giving it the characteristic golden colour with intense amber streaks.