I managed a quick visit on Boxing Day to the Hong Kong Food Festival, where I spent an hour looking at some wines on offer at the various stalls, one of which is this Cartizze. I had tried different versions of Prosecco before but never had I tried Cartizze before. Cartizze is a hill as well as the name of a cru in the heart of the Valdobbiane region, which the the home of Prosecco. Traditionally made Dry rather than Brut, the grapes for Cartizze is harvested unusually late and the fermentation is also slow. This makes for a pleasantly rounded delicate wine with a complex bouquet of fruits and flowers.
As for this wine, it was a pale pale straw, with few streams of fine bubbles (but this was the last remnants of the bottle). The nose was crisp (but those small plastic cups were really awful for tasting) and the palate was dry and crisp with an acid prickle, with the wine turning fruity with acid on swallowing, leading to a fruity finish.
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