Paltrinieri Lambrusco Radice 2021
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| Management number | 253563266 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$11.20 | Model Number | 253563266 | ||
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Radice is 100% Lambrusco di Sorbara from Paltrinieri's Il Cristo vineyard, a 15-hectare holding in the narrowest strip of land between the Secchia and Panaro rivers north of Modena. The soils are sandy and chalky alluvial deposits at around 25 meters elevation. Grapes are hand-harvested in the second half of September.
This is an ancestral method wine: the must is gently pressed without maceration and fermented in stainless steel with native yeasts, then bottled mid-fermentation so the second fermentation and bubble development happen entirely in the bottle. There is no disgorgement and no dosage. The wine is sealed with a crown cap and left cloudy with lees sediment in suspension, which gives it a faintly turbid, salmon-pink appearance and a fine, persistent perlage.
The nose leads with grapefruit, wild strawberry, and wild rose. On the palate it is dry and electric, with pomegranate and green apple peel driving the finish. As you work toward the bottom of the bottle, lees contact adds a bread-crust quality. Acidity is the defining structural feature: piercing and clean. ABV is 11%.
Paltrinieri is considered by many critics and importers to be the benchmark producer of Lambrusco di Sorbara. Radice earns this reputation by doing something technically demanding in a region where the easy path is the Charmat method: putting the work of bubble-making inside the bottle, then leaving the wine exactly as it is.
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