Grapes: Nero D'Avola & Nerello Mascelese, Sicillia DOC, Sicilia, Italy
Aromas of dried roses, red cherries, wet stones and baked
raspberries. Medium-to full-bodied with fine, tense tannins. Nicely structured and perfumed on the palate, with floral and mineral complexity. Dried citrus, too. This needs a bit more time to come together, but will age very nicely.
The grapes were left in pre-fermentative maceration for
2 days and, once alcoholic fermentation
with only indigenous yeast was complete, post-fermentation maceration
was carried out for approximately 2 months including spontaneous malolactic fermentation. Once racked,
the wine remained on the fine lees with continuous
batonnage until June, after which it was put on clean
lees and bottled in September 2021 and has remained in the bottle to this day. Fermentation in 25
hectolitres cement vats. At increasingly longer intervals, on the day of the descending moon of the flowers, a remuage for each individual bottle was performed.