Passito Capitolium Moscato di Terracina DOC by Cantina SantAndrea is a dessert wine made of 100% indigenous Muscato di Terracina grapes. The sweet wine is bright golden yellow with light amber glints, expressing intense and complex aromas, typical of its variety reminiscent of yellow fruits, apricot, honey, dates and candied fruit. The taste is sweet and delicate, with a good structure, harmonic and very persistent. This dessert wine is excellent to go with desserts, cream cakes, apricot tarts, moreover it goes well also with medium or long ageing cheese, foie gras pâté. Recommended to serve fresh at 10-12°.
Harvest: last decade of September and first of October, selection of the grapes that are left to ripen on the vine. During the harvest grape is placed in small boxes where it rests still it becomes golden yellow colored.
Vinification:
The difficult wine-pressing and removal of grape stalks, due to the withering of the grapes, takes place in a very delicate way and the fermentation starts after a brief cryomaceration. Then the must is moved into small barrel with controlled temperature, where the slow fermentation ends. It rests for 6 months and finally there is the bottling, where the wine rests for 3 months to improve itself before to be sold.