Bulli Frizzante Colli Piacentini 'Ortrugo' NV Size:750 ml cassis and finely toasted notes

cassis and finely toasted notes

round tannins and a complex and intriguing finish

The result a delicious wine with plenty of blackberry and red currant flavors

it gains richness and drama

while this tastes of grape skins

Bulli Frizzante Colli Piacentini 'Ortrugo' NV Size:750 ml cassis and finely toasted notesWHO: Leonardo Bulli (matriarch boss is his mother La Signora Bulli). WHERE: 12 hectares in the Colli Piacentini, the hills around the town of PiacenzaWHAT GRAPES: Barbera, Bonarda, Uva Rara; spunky white Ortrugo, and the semi aromatic Uva Sampagnina (AKA Marsanne). WHAT WINES TASTE LIKE: limestone and alkaline soils give direct and honest wines, with a rustic minerality and saltiness. As Italians say of an honest farmer wine: Semplice ma non banale.