Terzavia 2021 Style|Aromatic + Textured

Terzavia 2021 Style|Aromatic + TexturedA bone dry, traditional method sparkling wine from a producer more principally associated with the production of fine Marsala. Here Grillo, a grape capable of making highly structured white wine, is fermented in a mixture of tanks and old wood barrels and then re fermented in the bottle to create some immaculate bubbles. Although Sicily is maybe not the first place you'd look for sparkling wine, this is very classical, precise stuff. Peachy stone

the 2022 sees a shorter maceration of just 5 days

The fruit is well balanced with that signature zip of acidity and ocean breeze salinity that we all know and love

The return of Testalonga's good-time bubbles

spring-bottled wine that is really flaunting it

layered and rugged and channel the land from which they come

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The aromatics here are wonderfully balanced with flowers

layered and a little bit wild

Showing plenty of flesh

The longer ageing of this vintage before bottling smooths out some of the rusticity of more recent iterations

and although not a bottle to open lightly

before being put into bottle with a little grape must kept aside from the harvest