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Etna Rosso Riserva "SÆCULARE" D.O.C.
- TYPE
- Dry red wine
- style
- Medium bodied, Natural, Organic
- winery
- iCustodi
- region
- Sicily
- subregion
- Etna
- Grape
- Nerello Cappuccio, Nerello Mascalese
- Soil type
- volcanic, Sandy, very rich in minerals
- year
- 2014
- pairings
- Grilled white meat, Roasted white meat
- content
- 0.75L
- alcohol
- 13.5%
The grapes of iCustodi's Saeculare come from vines up to 250 years old and are harvested manually around mid-October. After selection, the grapes are carefully brought to the winery in shallow crates. Here they are stripped of about 80% of the clusters and gently crushed. Maceration takes place for 12 days in steel vats at a temperature of 25-28°C. The wine then undergoes malolactic fermentation in tonneaux. Aging takes place for a minimum of 36 months, both in tonneaux and in bottle.
The wine shows a ruby red color.
On the nose, it is ethereal and intense, with hints of ripe fruit and tobacco.
On the palate, the wine presents itself elegant and harmonious, with a considerably long finish and pleasant tannins.
Serving temperature: 18-20° C
I Custodi
I Custodi are the guardians, the custodians of the vineyards of Etna: guarding means preserving the land, maintaining the traditions and respecting the people. From these values and from the love of a beautiful land, where wine was brought by man more than two millennia ago, come the wines of I Custodi, the result of the generosity and minerality of the warm volcanic soil, the cold of the Muntagna and the sun of Sicily.