Franchetti Terre Siciliane 2021

Description

Still red from the Terre Siciliane IGT, 15% ABV, produced by Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti). Blend: 60% Petit Verdot, 40% Cesanese D'Affile. 2021 vintage. A wine born on the slopes of Etna, a unique terroir that yields wines of great character. Mineral aromas are followed by a deluge of black cherries and sour cherries, black cherries, raspberries, graphite and tar, burnt citrus peel, hibiscus, and dried flowers. A brilliant ruby color of medium depth. The palate is rich and forceful on the palate, perfectly taut, and vibrant in its savory punch. The tannins, abundant and beautifully integrated, support a very long and aromatic finish, with hints of cinchona and peat.

Details

Perfume

Mineral aromas, followed by an olfactory deluge of black cherry and sour cherry, black cherry, raspberry, graphite and goudron, burnt citrus peel, carcadè and dried flowers.

Color

Brilliant ruby mantle of medium depth.

Taste

Very rich and impetuous mouthfeel, taut to the right point, vibrant in its savoury charge. The tannin, plentiful and happily integrated, underpins a very long finish saturated with aromas, with sensations of cinchona and peat.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

From this winery

• Start up year: 2000
• Oenologist: Andrea Franchetti
• Bottles produced: 90.000
• Hectares: 27

“Volcanoes are gloomy places, and when I arrived, Mt. Etna was even gloomier because it was an abandoned volcano. Wineries lay collapsed all over its slopes; stonewalled terraces disappeared everywhere up the mountain in the bushes. There was the misery of blackened streets and ashen churches in large old towns. These were the feelings I had in the winter of 2000 when I first came to Etna. It seemed crazy to restore vineyards so high up the mountain – above, it was erupting – but I liked that they were planted so high.

At the top of the steep Passopisciaro property looms a hump of black gravel. It’s where the lava spill from a big eruption in 1947 had stopped, caking up just before it could submerge whole terraces below it, vines, walls, and buildings: on Etna you can lose it all.

Here, it’s always very cold at night, even in August. During the day in the vineyards the lava powder penetrates in the skin and you get intoxicated, tired. The first wine I made was pale and meager, and I was discouraged. I planted other grapes; whatever is planted there the wine always tastes of citrus and camphor, without that generous body that you like earth to lend right away to a wine.

There’s no mold, no moss; the ground sparkles black like the night; the wine slowly becomes very elegant and strange. During the day a soft light penetrates everything and then there are starry nights; Etna has enormous poetry. Making wine, you have access to it. There isn’t Mother Nature here. You are conducting your viticulture on stuff that comes out of the terrible below.” (Andrea Franchetti) Read more

Sicily

Technical Sheet

Name	Franchetti Terre Siciliane 2021
Type	Red still
Denomination	Terre Siciliane IGT
Vintage	2021
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	15.0% by volume
Grape varieties	60% Petit Verdot, 40% Cesanese D'Affile
Country	Italy
Region	Sicily
Vendor	Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
Origin	Contrada Guardiola (Catania)
Climate	Altitude: 900 m. a.s.l.
Plants per hectare	12.300 plants per hectare
Yield per hectare	17 q
Harvest	22 October
Production technique	Treatments: clay, propolis, seed extract.
Wine making	Alcoholic fermentation in steel barrels for about 14 days.
Aging	In new French oak barriques for about 6 months and 14 months in cement vats.
Allergens	Contains sulphites