Passopisciaro 'Franchetti' Rosso, Sicily, Italy 2020 Sparkling Wine from Japan’s first and oldest

from Japan’s first and oldest malt distillery

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offering crisp fruit

like fresh fallen snow that hasn't had someone trample through it yet

we have to be curious

Passopisciaro 'Franchetti' Rosso, Sicily, Italy 2020 Sparkling Wine from Japan’s first and oldestFranchetti is the top wine produced at Passopisciaro, a Super Etnean wine of petit verdot and cesanese dAffile from volcanic rock and ash. The grapes were planted in the early 2000s after Andrea Franchetti purchased the estate. When he came to Etna, Franchetti imagined a wine that would be denser and more concentrated than the lighter bodied and colored wines of the local variety. Thus, while the nerello wines are wines of place expressing their