Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 American oak adds notes of

American oak adds notes of vanilla and nuts while finishing in Irish whiskey barrels adds complex spice notes and mellow smoothness

almost reminiscent of stoved peaches and pears with cream on the nose

The brut is fresh and delicate

litchi and apricot

Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 American oak adds notes ofThe colour is rather pale straw yellow. The bouquet is immediately spicy, mineral, at times smoky, reminiscent of citrus peel, fruit with a sweet pulp, but with a leathery skin, plum, gooseberry, then moves on to more vegetal notes, vine leaf, elder flowers and essential oils of bergamot, dill and wild fennel. In the mouth it has excellent tension, very direct, clean, thirst quenching, pleasingly dry; the salty acid component emerges significantly,