Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
Passobianco 2024
| Denomination | IGT Terre Siciliane |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 13.0% by volume |
| Area | Sicily (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Chardonnay |
| Aging | 10 months in concrete barrels and large wooden barrels, then another 10 months in bottle. |
Description
The Passobianco is a Chardonnay white wine with a rich and elegant bouquet that alternates with tropical fruit and apricot notes, toasted cereals and honey.
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Serve at:
10 - 12 °C
Longevity:
05 - 10 years
- Start up year: 2000
- Oenologist: Andrea Franchetti
- Bottles produced: 90.000
- Hectares: 27
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
| Name | Passopisciaro Passobianco 2024 |
|---|---|
| Type | White still |
| Denomination | Terre Siciliane IGT |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 13.0% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Chardonnay |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Vendor | Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) |
| Wine making | 20 days in steel tanks. |
| Aging | 10 months in concrete barrels and large wooden barrels, then another 10 months in bottle. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |