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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) Sicily Terre Siciliane IGT

Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

Passopisciaro Contrada R 2022

Red still

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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 14.5% by volume
Area Sicily (Italy)
Grape varieties 100% Nerello Mascalese
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Description

Passopisciaro's Rampant is obtained from old vines of Nerello Mascalese with a free foot placed over a thousand meters in terraces on the wall of lava di Solicchiata. The soil in which they are raised is sandy and oxidized.

Awards

  • 2022

    96

    /100

    Decanter is a wine and lifestyle magazine, published monthly in around 90 countries. The magazine includes industry news, classic guides and advice on wine and spirits.

  • 2022

    96

    /100

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Perfume

Perfume

Intense, fruity and floral with mineral touches, notes of violet, aromatic herbs and cherry.

Color

Color

Ruby red.

Taste

Taste

Elegant and fresh, with a well-integrated tannin and a very persistent finish.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

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)

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Name Passopisciaro Contrada R 2022
Type Red still
Denomination Terre Siciliane IGT
Vintage 2022
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 14.5% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Nerello Mascalese
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Vendor Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
Origin Castiglione di Sicilia (CT)
Allergens Contains sulphites