Crossword-Solution: SPUMANTE 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Mariani’s is a quiet restaurant, famous for its _lachryma christi spumante_, and situated in the network of sombre streets between Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

And so, by force of circumstance, it came about that Cimarosa, Paesiello, and Rossini fed the mystic, melancholy little boy, who was more than a little intoxicated by his draughts of the _Asti spumante_ poured out for him, instead of milk, by these bacchanalian Satyrs, and the two lively, ingenuously, lasciviously smiling Bacchante of Naples and Catania--Pergolesi and Bellini.

And your genius in recommending this wine"--he filled Andrew's glass with Cinzano's Asti Spumante--"is worthy of the man who saw us out at Bourdon Wood.

Here's some _Barbera_ to drink it befittingly, That day at _Silvio's_, Barney McGee! Many's the time we have quaffed our Chianti there, Listened to Silvio quoting us Dante there,-- Once more to drink _Nebiolo spumante_ there, How we'd pitch Pommery into the sea! There where the gang of us Met ere Rome rang of us, They had the hang of us To a degree.

Here's some _Barbera_ to drink it befittingly, That day at Silvio's, Barney McGee! Many's the time we have quaffed our Chianti there, Listened to Silvio quoting us Dante there-- Once more to drink Nebiolo spumante there, How we'd pitch Pommery into the sea! There where the gang of us Met ere Rome rang of us, They had the hang of us To a degree.