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DENOMINATION: Sicilia DOC.
LOCATION: Contrada Pianetto, Santa Cristina Gela (PA).
YIELD PER HECTARE: 9 tonnes.
VINE DENSITY: 4.830 plants per ha.
SOIL QUALITY: medium-textured, rich in clay, gravel and minerals. ELEVATION: 650 m a.s.l.
TRAINING SYSTEM: vertical trellises.
PRUNING: spur-trained cordons, 8/10 buds.
BOTTLES PRODUCED: 14.000.
FIRST VINTAGE: 2015.
GRAPE BLEND: Grillo.

HARVEST: between August and September, grapes are handpicked and collected into wooden crates for a preliminary manual sorting at the end of two different harvests: an early picking of under-ripe fruit in order to obtain a higher acidic concentration and a subsequent harvest of slightly super-ripe grapes which will undergo cryomaceration on the skins to

bring out the grape’s full varietal potential.

VINIFICATION: grapes are laid out onto conveyor belts and selected. After destemming and a light pressing, the

musts ferment in small-sized steel tanks: all operations are performed with the use of gravity flow thanks to the multi-level structure of our cellar. Each of the two harvests is fermented separately in order to obtain a complex bouquet. Decantation is natural, without the use of inorganic additives or sulphites and is performed at a low temperature to aid the separation of the gross lees. Fermentation is also natural and occurs over 40-60 days at a low temperature. The super-ripe grapes undergo their fermentation start-up on the skins in steel tanks and are left to macerate for a week at 8°C. The free run juice is then transferred into selected French wooden barrels where it

is stored for approx. 5 months. A month before bottling, the two cuvees are blended together.

AGEING: 6 months on the lees in steel tanks. TOTAL ACIDITY: 6.15 g/L.
ALCOHOL: 13%.

TASTING NOTES:

COLOUR: Light straw yellow with lively greenish highlights.

AROMA: The scent of Sicily fills the nose with fresh and intense notes of citrus, combined with delightful hint of almond and melon. Scents of lavander and broom.

FLAVOUR AND TEXTURE: Medium-bodied wine. The taste buds will reveal in the soft and fresh first impression of a wine that excels in persistence and simplicity. It has a lively fruitness on the palate, crisp with an aristocratic Mediterranean minerality, elegant and well balanced.

FOOD PAIRINGS: Its fragrance and its aromaticity make of it an exemplary wine to accompany shellfish and seafood appetizers, but

also first and second courses based on fish and vegetables. Perfect also with white meats, eggs and cured meats.

IDEAL SERVING TEMPERATURE: 9°.