Spumante Rosato Brut “BollaRosa”
Lacrima di Morro d’Alba is grown only on a select handful of clay hillsides around Morro d’Alba in Le Marche — and almost nowhere else on earth — it is named for the way its ripe berries split and weep in the September sun. Its perfume is unmistakable: rose petal, violet, lavender.
Luigi Giusti has built his estate on this grape. For Bolla Rosa he presses it gently and directly off the skins for the faintest blush of color, then rests it four months on the fine lees. The result smells like a flower market and tastes of stewed strawberry and blueberry brioche, with a whisper of cinnamon.
Appellation: Spumante Rosato Brut
Type: Sparkling, dry, rosato (rosé)
Varietal: 100% Lacrima di Morro d’Alba