Wines
Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Volpare doc
Clear and pale lemon, hints of yellow pulp fruit, floral bouquet of broom, citrus aromas of lemon, ginger, aromatic herbs. Fresh and mineral with a pleasant finish of citrus notes.
| Grape variety: | 100% Carricante |
| Production area: | eastern slope of Mount Etna, Contrada Volpare, Milo |
| Altitude: | 700m a. s. l. |
| Soil: | sandy volcanic soil with high organic substance and rich in minerals |
| Treatments: | limited to the use of sulphur and copper. |
| Vine density | 6,000 vine-stocks per hectare |
| Growing method: | bush vine (albarello etneo) on small terraces with dry lava-stone walls. |
| Harvest: | second ten days of October. |
| Vinification and aging: | the grapes are harvested by hands. Direct pressing of the whole bunches, partial fermentation of the must in barrels and part in steel. The wine is left to mature in the tank on its fine lees with periodic stirrings for 8 months. |
| Production: | 6,000 bottles. |
| Alcohol content: | 12.5 % by Vol |
| Serving temperature: | 10° - 12°C |
Maugeri
Eastern Sicily: 83 terraces, stretching between Contrada Praino and Contrada Volpare, through the pathways of the Milo forest, 700mt above sea level, on the eastern slopes of Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe.
Maugeri is the wine-growing project of an Etnean family, who have returned to their home district to make wine once more. The unbroken line of more than 2.8 km of lava dry-stone walling borders the 7 hectares of the property, an amphitheatre of fertile volcanic soil, in a close embrace with the Mediterranean landscape.
Sicilia
Like much of the Italian mainland, Sicily’s winemakers have moved away from producing high-volume, unremarkable wines, to focus on quality wines of great character. Its dry, well-structured red and white wines could not be further removed from the sweet Marsala and Moscato of the island’s past, and this has not gone unnoticed by international markets that have never had such a thirst for Sicilian wines. Sicilian producers have paved the way for other Southern Italian winemakers to begin to exploit the country’s rich environmental diversity, with wines that achieve the potential first admired by the Greeks and Romans.
