Wines

Rosso Terre Siciliane - Ypsilon Igt

The latest addition to the Castellaro home: a new red wine that takes its name from the geographical shape of the Aeolian archipelago, which draws a Ypsilon lying on the sea, off the Sicilian coast. The latest addition to the Castellaro family: a new red wine with a fresh and enveloping taste, with typical hints of red fruits and spices. It has a good taste persistence. It is a blend that harmonises three red berries characteristic of Lipari, Sicily and Etna: Corinto, Nero d'Avola and Alicante in a wine ready to drink, purple and full-bodied that maintains freshness and minerality. Low temperature vinification with short maceration of the wine with the skins. No clarification takes place, only static decantation and repeated racking to make the wine naturally clear before bottling.

Technical Specifications
TYPE	Dry red wine
CLASSIFICATION	IGT Terre Siciliane Rosso
PRODUCTION AREA	Lipari Island (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)
CLIMATE	Temperate, warm, Mediterranean, with great temperature changes throughout the day. Windy
SOIL	Sandy, volcanic, deep, fertile and rich in microelements
ALTITUDE	350 m.a.s.l.
GRAPE VARIETY	Corinto nero, Nero d'Avola e Alicante
TRAINING SYSTEM	Alberello technique (free standing “little tree”)
DENSITY OF IMPLANTATION	7000 stumps per hectare
ALCOHOL CONTENT	12,5%
GRAPE HARVEST	Handpicked with selection of the bunches
VINIFICATION	e de-stemmed grapes are fermented by the yeasts naturally present on the grapes. At the end of the alcoholic fermentation the wine is decanted into steel containers where it renes and carries out the malolactic fermentation. Aging always takes place in steel for about 1 year. e wine is not subjected to any clarication, but just static decanting before bottling
AGING IN THE BOTTLE	At least 4 months
ESTIMATED AGING CAPACITY	At least 5 years
TASTING TEMPERATURE	15-16°C

Tenuta Di Castellaro

Respect for nature, man and tradition are the cornerstones of the philosophy that Tenuta di Castellaro has espoused since the early stages of the project. In Lipari, in the splendid Aeolian Islands, on the Piana di Castellaro 350 meters above sea level, supported by the ancient Quarries of Kaolin, an ambitious oenological and landscape project arises.

Tenuta di Castellaro winery is born from the careful selection of the indigenous vines of the Aeolian archipelago and from the recovery of a part of that territory that, over the years, had been abandoned.
The millennial tree, grown organically in the 20 hectares of vineyard, preserves the precious fruit that gives birth to sought-after wines with a unique taste, pure expression of the volcanic territory of Lipari, an unspoiled place that has welcomed us with its natural adversities.

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.