Wine Pairing: Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG represents the sparkling-wine tradition of the hills south of the Po, where Pinot Nero has been cultivated for generations and has a documented connection to traditional-method sparkling wine since the nineteenth century. The strongest bottles are not trying to imitate Champagne mechanically. They use Oltrepò’s Pinot Nero, often supported by Chardonnay, to create dry sparkling wines with red

Classic Pavia Torta Paradiso with creamed butter, sugar, eggs, flour, potato starch and lemon: fine crumbed, fragrant and finished only with powdered sugar.

Sangue di Giuda dell’Oltrepò Pavese DOC is a sweet or semi-sweet red, often frizzante whose character becomes clearest at the table. It comes from the Oltrepò Pavese hills south of Pavia, where rolling Apennine foothills with clay-limestone soils and varied exposures where Croatina and Barbera retain enough acidity to balance residual sugar. Pairing depends on the finished wine’s acidity, texture, aroma, sweetness, tannin and alcohol rather than on reputation alone. In Genera