Wine Review: Ricci Curbastro Museum Release Franciacorta Extra Brut 2005

Today I taste what is really a quite exceptional example of Franciacorta, Italy’s premium bottle fermented style of sparkling wine. The wine is Ricci Curbastro’s 2005 Extra Brut Museum Release, a wine that has spent ten years ageing on its lees and then subsequently nine years ageing in bottle. While a fading fizz suggests the wine is possibly slightly past its best, the combination of yeast ageing and subsequent bottle development leaves a very complex wine overlaying its fine and very soft mousse.

Ricci Curbastro were one of the 11 companies originally making sparkling wine in the Franciacorta region when it achieved its DOC status in 1967. Eighteen generations of the family have grown grapes in this part of Lombardy since the 14th Century. Today the company is overseen by Ricardo Ricci Curbastro. As well as sparkling wines the company also makes a range of still wines under the Sabino IGT.

To find out more about this wine, its price and where to purchase it go to wine-searcher.com: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/ricci+curbastro+museum+extra+brut+docg+franciacorta+lombardy+italy/2005

▶️ CHAPTERS:
0:06 Ricci Curbastro Museum Release Franciacorta Extra Brut 2005 wine label
0:20 Background and history of Ricci Curbastro
0:35 History of Franciacorta
1:39 Sabino IGT
1:25 Winemaking
1:49 Ricardo Ricci Curbastro
1:59 Style of Franciacortas made
2:06 Sustainable farming
2:16 The estate
2:26 Soil types
2:40 Winemaking – including blend
2:50 Ageing including autolysis
3:20 Dosage
3:30 Age on cork
3:44 TASTING – Appearance
4:04 Aromas
4:54 Palate
6:12 Maturity
6:22 Conclusions
6:59 Score
7:16 Thanks, closing remarks and sign-off

▶️follow this link to my video tasting of Hundred Hills Blanc de Blancs 2019 English Sparkling Wine: https://youtu.be/6Wds_F_8Qqs

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