IDEALE

Ideale is the sparkling wine of the Petrini estate — a fine and elegant Brut produced from a blend of Pecorino, Chardonnay, and Montepulciano that brings together the three grape varieties that define the estate's range into a single sparkling expression of considerable ambition and genuine quality. The name captures both the aspiration and the achievement: ideal is precisely what this estate sets out to produce, and in Ideale they come closest to realising that aspiration in sparkling form.

The combination of Pecorino, Chardonnay, and Montepulciano in a sparkling wine is an unusual and creative blending decision — the Pecorino contributes the mineral freshness and aromatic complexity of the estate's flagship white variety; the Chardonnay adds the structural roundness and the aromatic neutrality that makes it one of the world's most reliable bases for sparkling wine; the Montepulciano — a red grape vinified as white — contributes body, colour complexity, and the particular depth of character that Abruzzo's great red variety brings to any wine in which it is present.

The wine offers citrus scents with the typical aromatic notes of bread and sweets — the autolytic character that sparkling wine production develops over time on the lees — combined with a vivacity and richness in sapidity that gives the wine genuine presence on the palate. The structure is good and the taste and backtaste are persistent and elegant — the two qualities that distinguish a serious sparkling wine from a merely pleasant one.

Ideale is the wine with which the Petrini estate demonstrates that its commitment to carbon neutrality, ICEA organic certification, and third-generation quality is not limited to its still wines but extends to every expression in the portfolio. A sparkling wine of honest ambition.

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