spumante

[ Italian spoo-mahn-te; English spuh-mahn-tee, -tey, spyuh- ]

noun

1. Italian. any sparkling wine.
2. Asti spumante.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spumante¹

< Italian: literally, foaming; spume

Example Sentences

He points to the Citronnade a la Menthe, served at his restaurants, which is a "a play on the traditional mint lemonade served in French bistros. We prepare a cardamom lemon cordial and mix it with Moroccan tea before lightly fermenting for 48 hours. This doesn't add any discernible alcohol, less than a kombucha, but does lighten the sugar content and add a spumante amount of fizz."

From Salon

The third is a charming Italian spumante from Campania that takes us on time travel back to an ancient era.

From Washington Post

Mellisoni Vineyards 2020 Bollicine Dry Bubbly muscat canelli, Columbia Valley, $60: This beautifully tropical aperitif features co-winemaker Donna Mellison on the label and uses the Italian word for bubbles to toast in an Asti spumante fashion.

From Seattle Times

With his back to dusty bottles of the hill’s best spumante through the decades, he sat with tented hands on an elevated seat and argued that the good name of Prosecco had been irrevocably sullied by overproduction on the mechanically harvested and viticulturally uninteresting provinces that accounted for 500 million of the 600 million bottles on the market.

From New York Times

Call it Conegliano Valdobbiadene Superior Spumante, or some permutation thereof, as long as the wine was explicitly tied to its traditional, and inimitable, territory.

From New York Times

Related Words

• bubbly
• champagne