Albina Passito - Menti

With Menti Albina Passito, a first-class dessert wine finds its way into the glass. It presents a wonderfully bright, platinum-yellow color. Poured into a dessert wine glass, this Old World dessert wine reveals delightfully fragrant and complex aromas of fig, apricot, and dried apricot, rounded off by smoke contributed by maturation in wooden barrels.

Albina Passito can rightly be described as exceptionally fruit-driven and velvety, as it has been vinified with a pleasantly sweet flavor profile. On the palate, this well-balanced dessert wine is characterized by an incredibly dense, velvety, creamy, and silky texture. On the finish, this dessert wine from the Veneto wine-growing region delights with impressive length. Once again, hints of apricot and fig appear. In the aftertaste, mineral notes from the volcanic stone-dominated soils also join in.

Vinification of Albina Passito by Menti

This wine clearly focuses on a single grape variety, namely Garganega. For this exceptionally well-balanced varietal wine from Menti, only first-class grape material was harvested. The grapes grow under optimal conditions in Veneto. Here, the vines sink their roots deep into soils of volcanic rock. After the harvest, the grapes are brought to the press house as quickly as possible. There they are selected and gently crushed. This is followed by fermentation in concrete and large wooden vats at controlled temperatures. After fermentation is complete, the elegant Albina Passito is aged for another 12 months in oak barrels.

Food recommendation for Menti Albina Passito

Enjoy this dessert wine from Italy best moderately chilled at 11–13°C as an accompanying wine to almond milk jelly with lychees, baked apples with yogurt sauce, or elderflower yogurt ice cream with lemon balm.

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