Malbo Gentile

Malbo Gentile (Malbo Gentile) – a dark-skinned grape variety, growing in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna. Here it is allowed as one of the additional ingredients in the blend of sparkling red wine Lambrusco.

Sweet sparkling wine from malbo Gentile

Used as an independent sort. The wine from it can be dry and very tannic, but most of it is made in a sweet passito style, from dried grapes.

Malbo Gentile is located on the slopes of the hills of Emilia-Romagna, because he needed the height where more opportunities to preserve acidity.

This hardy variety producing large bunches of berries with a high sugar content. This, combined with the late ripening and thick skinned, makes it very suitable for drying. Therefore, malbo Gentile best manifested itself in the sweet red wines with pronounced notes of dark fruit.

A dry red from it too do: with a rich purple hue, aromas of BlackBerry, raspberry and rose petals.

Thick-skinned berries means that tannins can sometimes be over the edge, but this is usually balanced by aging in oak that serves to soften the wine before bottling.

Wine from pure malbo Gentile are usually released as DOC Colli di Scandiano e di Canossa, but part of it is doing as a simple IGT.

In the wines of DOC Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro malbo Gentile plays second fiddle after one of the types of grapes Lambrusco – Lambrusco Grasparossa, which gave its name to denomination. In these wines he brings in the tannins and color.