Grape: Nerello Mascelese, Sicillia DOC, Sicilia, Italy
Aromas of red cherries, pine, ash and ripe strawberries.
Full-bodied with powdery yet firm tannins. A bit grippy, but very fine-grained. Smoky and spicy complexity on the palate, and is complimented by black and nicely ripened red fruit. Ash comes back at the savory finish. Fine-tuned intensity here.
The grapes were left in pre-fermentative maceration for
3 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 2020 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.