Etna Rosso ‘Guardoilvento’

Winemaker

Paolo Caciogna

Appellation

Etna Rosso DOC

Varieties

Nerello Mascalese

Viticulture

Alberello training system. Yield: 6000 kilo per hectare. Planting Density: 8000 vines per hectare. First vintage produced in 2013.

Terroir

Black soil with deep porous volcanic ash and traces of sand. Rich in minerals.

Ratings & Reviews

Vineyard

100% Nerello Mascalese. Pre-phylloxera rootstock. Municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia and Randazzo (CT) at 750 meters above sea level. Vineyard exposure is north/northeast. 'Guardoilvento' means, "I watch the wind." The wine dedicated to Dante Albieri (Graph Designer), Maria de Ferraris (Artist), Francesco Antonelli (Navigator and Writer). The name of the wine, which is also the name of Francesco Antonelli's first novel, represents the image of the vine grown in Alberello which is crossed in all directions by the wind, sometimes gently caressed to give it relief, sometimes lashed by a violent force. But it, the vine, with its roots well anchored to the earth that nourishes it, and tight to the pole to which man has entrusted it, remains there to watch and listen to that wind, which is also healthiness, it is quality.

Vinification

Fermentation in stainless steel. Extraction: Punch down. Maceration: 2 days at 10 degrees Celsius, 6 days at 28-30 degrees Celsius.

Aging

8 months in second use French barrique. 3 months in bottle.

Features

Bottle, Cork

Available Sizes (L)

0.750