Tasting - Ruffino

Name: Ruffino

Variety: Prosecco

Country of Origin: Italy

Region of Origin: Veneto

Vintage Year: N/A

Price: $12

Winery Review:Ruffino Prosecco DOC Sparkling White Wine is an Italian sparkling wine meant to be sipped and enjoyed. This creamy and crisp extra dry white wine offers fruity aromas accompanied by hints of wisteria, with an intense peach and golden apple flavor. This Italian wine begins in the hilly area of Valdobbiadene, with glera grapes that undergo a traditional wine vinification. The winemakers then use selected yeasts in a natural refermentation process to create this clean and delicate Ruffino prosecco wine with refined bubbles and a pleasant finish. Enjoy this Italian prosecco as an aperitif, mix it into your favorite cocktail or pair it with margherita pizza, seafood, shellfish and white meat dishes. For the best quality and taste, drink this Ruffino wine young. Refrigerate for three to three and a half hours and serve at a temperature between 45 and 48 degrees.

Wine Folly: Information on Wine Folly can be found on page 155 for Proseccos. The alcohol content is supposed to be medium-low, no body, lower side of sweetness, low tannins, and medium-high acidity. It is grown in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The flavors are green apple, honeydew, pear, lager, cream. It is best served in a flute glass, ice cold, without decanting, spending ~$15, and in the cellar for 1-3 years.

My Review: I definitely could taste the pears on this prosecco. It was quite an intense pear flavor, and just like the other prosecco it was dry, but this one did not have that much of an after taste. I should really start to serve prosecco chilled, instead of at room temperature. It was $12, so just under the ~$15 average. I thought I hated proseccos but this was a pleasant experience. It had very minimal body and tannins.