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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) Sicily Terre Siciliane IGT

Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

Contrada G 2020

Red green still

Organic and sustainable
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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) Sicily Terre Siciliane IGT
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Denomination Terre Siciliane IGT
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Area Sicily (Italy)
Grape varieties 100% Nerello Mascalese
Aging In large oak barrels for about 18 months.
Year 2020
Biologic Sì
Product name Contrada G 2020
Color Ruby red.
Perfume The nose expresses itself with hints of ripe fruit, mineral notes and hints of spices.
Taste The palate reveals a rich, full body, with a well-integrated tannic texture and excellent persistence.
Region Sicily
Country Italy
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Description

Contrada Guardiola is an ancient district that lies between 800 m and 1000 m above sea level, on the edge of a recent lava flow from 1947 that stopped just before the vineyards. The ancient vineyards produce a deep and complex wine with a rich red fruit aroma. Only selected grapes from the oldest vineyards are used for this cru, which we started producing in 2011.

Awards

  • 2020

    4

    Italian Sommelier Foundation (FIS) guide This has been one of the most prestigious wine guides in Italy for over 10 years.

  • 2020

    96

    /100

    Vinous is the online guide from Antonio Galloni, one of the world's leading wine connoisseurs.

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Profumo

Perfume

The nose expresses itself with hints of ripe fruit, mineral notes and hints of spices.

Colore

Color

Ruby red.

Gusto

Taste

The palate reveals a rich, full body, with a well-integrated tannic texture and excellent persistence.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

15 - 25 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Pairings

Meat
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork

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
Production area: Sicily
Sicily
Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

Name Passopisciaro Contrada G 2020
Type Red green still
Denomination Terre Siciliane IGT
Vintage 2020
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Nerello Mascalese
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Vendor Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
Origin Castiglione di Sicilia (CT)
Climate Altitude: 800 m. a.s.l.
Plants per hectare 8000 plants per hectare
Yield per hectare 13 hl/ha
Harvest october 23rd.
Wine making 15 days in steel tanks. Malolactic fermentation: in large oak casks.
Aging In large oak barrels for about 18 months.
Allergens Contains sulphites