What is Vino Frizzante Prosecco?

Semi-Sparkling wine. Prosecco Frizzante is a gentler style of fizz with a soft sparkle. Our winemakers have created a fresh and delicate wine with notes of crisp green apple. Grape: Glera.

What is Prosecco Spago?

Put simply a frizzante Prosecco is semi-sparkling wine – the wine is bottled at a lower pressure than fully sparkling wines. Therefore, traditionally, the bottle would be sealed with a normal cork, secured with a bit of string – the Corda or Spago (these both mean string in Italian).

What is the difference between frizzante and Prosecco?

Wines labeled ‘frizzante’ are what we call gently sparkling, while wines labeled ‘spumante’ are more effervescent and fully sparkling. Prosecco is probably the most well-known frizzante wine style, though Prosecco wines can also be made fully sparkling (spumante).

Is Prosecco frizzante dry?

It’s a bit stronger in alcohol so there’s more of a kick. But it’s extra-dry, nearly Brut. The ordinary Prosecco Frizzante is less pretentious, less extra-dry though still dry. The means it has more taste in the normal sense but less complexity in the sommelier sense.

What does frizzante mean?

semi-sparkling
| Frizzante: If your sparkling wine has the Italian word frizzante on the label it means it is semi-sparkling. RAISE A GLASS.

Is Prosecco frizzante sweet?

Frizzante wines are most commonly a result of second fermentation in tank (also called the charmat method). This is the process used for most Prosecco wines and, by arresting fermentation before all the sugar is transformed into alcohol, a less fizzy and slightly sweet wine can be produced.

What does extra dry mean in Prosecco?

EXTRA DRY (also known as Extra Sec, Extra Seco), 12-17 g/l residual sugar, is medium dry to your taste (dry with a hint of sweetness). DRY (also known as Sec, Secco), 17-32 g/l residual sugar, is medium sweet.

Is frizzante a wine?

According to EU regulations: Frizzante wines have between 1 and 2.5 bars of pressure at 20˚C. They are defined as semi-sparkling by law and are classified and taxed as still wines.

Is frizzante sweet?

4.0Sweet, easy drinker from the Piedmont region of Italy. Aromas & flavors of red raspberry and strawberry. Lightly effervescent.