🍷 Frizzante
Italian word for a lightly sparkling wine.
Frizzante is the Italian word for a lightly bubbly wine. It is a semi-sparkling wine, with less gas than spumante or Champagne.
Under EU rules, the pressure in a bottle of frizzante is 1 to 2.5 bar at 20 °C. A fully sparkling wine has at least 3 bar. That is why frizzante is often closed with a plain cork or a cork tied with string, without a wire cage.
The bubbles come from a second fermentation in a tank or bottle. If the gas is simply pumped in, the label must say the wine is carbonated. Frizzante can be white, rosé or red, dry or slightly sweet.
The best-known examples are Lambrusco and Prosecco frizzante. Similar wines exist elsewhere: in France they are called pétillant, in Germany Perlwein. The word frizzante belongs to Italian wine and stands next to spumante.
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- 🍷 Semi-sparkling wine
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- 🍷 Semi-sparkling wine, 🍷 Spumante, 🍷 Lambrusco, 🍷 Prosecco
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between frizzante and spumante?
Frizzante has 1–2.5 bar of pressure, spumante at least 3 bar, so spumante is more bubbly.
Is Prosecco frizzante a sparkling wine?
It is a semi-sparkling wine with light bubbles. Prosecco also comes fully sparkling, as spumante.
Which well-known wine is often frizzante?
Most often Lambrusco. Prosecco also comes in a frizzante version.
Similar
🍷 Lambrusco · 🍷 Moscato d'Asti · 🍷 Pét-nat · 🍷 Aerated semi-sparkling wine · 🍷 Agulha · 🍷 Pétillant
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