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Description: A dry white wine which can often be medium or medium sweet, it is full bodied slightly tannic with a slight pleasantly bitter taste, semi-sweet Albana is like fleshy dry fruit.
Typical techniques: Four types of Albana are produced: dry, medium sweet, sweet, raisin wine. The dry wine is pale yellow and goes slightly gold in colour as it ages, it is lightly perfumed. The taste is dry a little tannic, warm and well balanced with an alcohol content of 11.50° minimum. To be consumed young at a temperature of around 10°C, it is an excellent wine to drink with meals. It is especially an excellent accompaniment to fish dishes, snails, fried seafood and soups, but can also be served with goose liver and white meats. It is an excellent accompaniment to soups and creams. Medium sweet and sweet wines are also pale yellow with the same characteristic perfume with a light fruity taste. Its minimum alcohol content is 12°. The sweet wine is also best drunk young at a temperature of around 6-7° C it is an excellent accompaniment to all kinds of sweets: cakes, panettone, fruit pies and baked pastries and fruits (except for fresh figs, grapes and citrus fruits). It excellent for the typical Romagnolo round shaped cake, “la ciambella”. Albana di Romagna raisin wine is a rare red wine for refined palates, it is a golden yellow in colour tending towards amber with an intense perfume and velvety taste, it is delicious sweet and medium sweet the alcoholic content is from 12° to 15.5°, it cannot be sold for consumption before the 1st April after it is made. This is a long lasting wine which should be served at around 7° C it goes extremely well with dry biscuits, certain kinds of cheese such as spicy or herby gorgonzola. It is also great to drink on its own away from meals.