Collalto, Prosecco Millesimato DOCG, Veneto, Italy

This style, the richest in terms of residual sugar, preserves the qualities classic to the grape variety, and makes possible a duet between the wine’s natural crispness and its silky smoothness, thus ensuring a near-magic balance between bouquet and palate. It appears a very delicate straw yellow, then displays a graceful, long-lingering bead and dense mousse of pin-point bubbles.

The bouquet is admirably elegant and refined, releasing impressions of spring flowers, white peach, citrus, and just-ripe banana. Its hallmark qualities of crispness and silkiness give the palate its judicious sweetness. It is ideally paired with an entire array of baked desserts, including fruit pies, petits.