I was beyond excited when I read the part about Genoa because we were there last year and we fell completely in love with it. If only I had known this place existed at the time. Oh well, we will just have to go back!
See some snaps from our trip below!
The Wine
What does "Frizzante" mean? This word designates a slightly sparkling Italian wine, while "Spumante" means fully sparkling.Valdobbiadene is a special designated wine production area for Prosecco, located in the province of Treviso in Veneto, Italy.
While this wine does come from that region, the Glera 2015 bubbly is known as a "declassified" Prosecco, according to the importer Rosenthal Wine Merchant, a company that works directly with wine growers, with the goal of producing special and unique wines, emphasizing terroir.*
The Glera is not classified under the DOCG because of the closure on the bottle. Yes, you read that correctly. Wine laws can be pretty strict. This wine has a crown cap like glass bottled beer, which is in conflict with recently changed appellation laws that require a cork closure.
But, the wine is still made in the Prosecco style with the Glera grape, the main grape used to make this wine, using a process called the Charmat method, where the wine undergoes its second fermentation in a steel tank rather than the bottle.
Méthode Classique or Méthode Traditionnelle (also goes by several other names as well) is the process used to make Champagne, Cava and Cremant, as well as other sparkling wines, including some Italian sparkling wines, and involves fermentation twice in the bottle.
Tasting Notes
The Bisson 2015 bubbly is almost completely clear in color had a nose of apricot and a palate of lime and lemon zest. It's super light in body with refreshing minerality.This wine was also made using as little sugar as possible, which I really liked, and it was very refreshing.
This wine was about $30 for a bottle at Bacchanal Wine Bar, which is a good value considering the labor and time that goes into making it, which also includes harvesting the grapes by hand, not machine.
The Wine Bar: Bacchanal
Bacchanal was absolutely amazing. I was there for a bachelorette party and we sat outside in the back for several hours. There is a huge courtyard with tables and listened to live music the whole time, ate amazing food and drank amazing wine.The employees in the wine shop were extremely helpful, and suggested the perfect wines that were right up my alley, and exactly what I asked for. One of those was the Frizzante above, and another, a unique white wine, my first Croatian wine, made from the Posip grape from Zlatan Otok Winery. Read about it here! They also indulged my inner wine nerd and talked about some other cool wines, which I bought and plan to blog about soon.
Also, this wine bar was recommended to me by a sommelier at a small restaurant at a hotel we stayed in on our honeymoon in Quebec City. Small world!
They also had a great selection and variety of rose wines which we enjoyed!
Cooler than Cool
Bisson also makes several other sparkling wines that...drumroll, please...are submerged in the bay in Portofino for the second fermentation. HOW COOL IS THAT?! I'm going to have to chase the winemaker, vignaiolo in Italian, Pierluigi Lugano down for an interview the next time we're in Genoa. I hope my wine-nerd enthusiasm doesn't scare him away. Cheers!*Terroir refers to how a particular wine region’s climate, soil and terrain affect the taste of wine.
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