Franciacorta Brut 'Milledi' Ferghettina 2021
The Franciacorta "Milledi" is a sparkling wine that embodies, with classicism and elegance, the pure Franciacorta style: notes of citrus, fruit, white flowers, and bread crust alternate in a beautiful and fresh aromatic complexity. It is born from a refinement of 36 months on the lees
The Milledì Ferghettina arises from the company's need to produce a vintage Brut, strongly characterized by the unmistakable Franciacorta style. Clear in its floral notes on the nose and mineral hints on the palate, the Milledì brings forth a typological revolution, given the choice to use a square-section bottle, not for aesthetic purposes but for precise technological ends.
The starting idea was to improve the performances of the secondary fermentation in the bottle, allowing the yeasts to work at their best in order to further characterize, from an aromatic point of view, this terroir product of Franciacorta. After a careful study conducted by Roberto Gatti, the owner of the company, together with his son Matteo, it was decided to bottle the Milledì in this new form of container which, thanks to its flat side at the base, would allow the yeasts to settle on a much larger surface of the cylindrical bottom of a classic bottle and to proceed with a much more efficient secondary fermentation from a qualitative point of view (with a production greater in mannoproteins, essential for the aromatic developments of wines obtained with the Metodo Classico).
For this reason, the Milledì is a product that, in the wake of the traditional style of Ferghettina, unfolds a substantial innovation, which can be appreciated especially during the evolutionary course of this wine.