Wines

Etna Rosso Feudo Pignatone doc

Feudo Pignatone Rosso is created from a selection of Nerello Mascalese grapes grown organically on the contrada (an ancient estate usually aligning with an historic lava flow) of the same name in the municipality of Randazzo on the northern slope of Mount Etna at an altitude of approximately 700 metres. The grapes used in Feudo Pignatone Rosso come from vines between 30 and 100 years old. A meticulous selection is carried out in the vineyard and subsequently through the separate vinification of every single parcel so as to produce a wine of rare elegance and finesse, with a mineral imprint that unmistakeably expresses the terroir.

Technical Specifications
Appellation	tna Rosso Doc Contrada Feudo Pignatone
Variety	100% Nerello Mascalese
Age of the vines	30 to 100 years old
Altitude	700 m above sea level
Yield per vine	approximately 900 grams per vine on average
Fermentation	spontaneous, using yeasts naturally present on the grapes
Vinification	the grapes were picked by hand then vinified in small open vessels with around 30% of the bunches left whole. Skin contact for 13 days with daily punch-downs.
Ageing	in a mixture of new and used wood casks for 10 months
Appellation	Etna Rosso Doc Contrada Feudo Pignatone
Bottles produced	3,660 75 cl bottles

Emiliano Falsini - Sicilia

“I feel free to interpret wine by humbly listening to what nature wants to tell us through its force and energy, and that is why I am firmly convinced that creating great wine starts in the vineyard.” Since the beginning of my career, I have wanted to learn about and visit other wine-producing region around the world, and this has led me to spend time working and training in California, New Zealand and Argentina, where I enriched my cultural understanding of wine.

Grapes can communicate the richness and diversity of the terroir in which they are grown, and it is this richness and this diversity that have always historically set wines apart and which today I want to pursue in every project I undertake.

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.