Hakutsuru Plum Wine 750ml Chinato Start with a big lush

Start with a big lush round mouth feel and beautiful dark ripe fruit

Delivers a sappy (if perhaps slightly extracted stylistically) beam of dark cherry and cassis notes girded by graphite and sweet tobacco

What makes the stuff so technical is that it undergoes not just one fermentation (to make the alcohol) but a second fermentation to make bubbles

The fruit is on the darker side for the vintage

Founder Adolpho Laborel Melini used pasteurization in winemaking 33 years before Louis Pasteur wrote about the process

Hakutsuru Plum Wine 750ml Chinato Start with a big lushA pleasing fruity plum aroma characterizes this semi sweet wine with slightly tart, bright and tangy notes. A perfect aperitif or dessert wine.