Wines
Sparkling - Nerello Mascalese Brut Nature Rose igt
Most jovial and direct expression of the grapes grown at about a thousand meters on the north side of Etna, grapes from vineyards with an average age of about 60 years that allow the production of a wine of great elegance and great freshness; a wine obtained by winemaking grapes with traditional techniques in a modern key capable of best representing the fascinating world of Etna wines. The vineyards are conducted in full respect of the environment and of the personnel who work in the countryside following the dictates of eco-sustainable viticulture; no chemical fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides were used in the vineyards.
| Grapes: | Nerello Mascalese 100% |
| Vineyards of provenance: | Fom the assembly of grapes grown with sapling and espalier at an altitude between about 750 and 1000 meters, on the north side of Etna; the management of the vineyards is in full respect of the environment with an average age of the vineyards of about 60 years grown on volcanic soil particularly rich in micro elements and minerals. Piripicchio is the result of the assembly of grapes from the Tartaraci (80%) and San Lorenzo (20%) districts |
| Harvest: | the collection was carried out manually in the early hours of the morning from 6.30 to 11.30 by qualified personnel in the second half of September |
| Cellar practices: | the grapes are pressed directly in whole bunches, there is no maceration, the contact with the skins is only the time of pressing (just over 2 hours) the free-run must is fermented at low temperature using the yeasts naturally present on the grapes, a 50% part is kept in stainless steel at a temperature around 10 ° / 12 ° to then assemble the wine with the remaining part remaining in wood ageing for 10 months from the end of fermentation. Finally, the second fermentation in the bottle which takes place with the addition of sugars that come from the must of the new harvest. We decided not to open the wine and leave the yeasts in the bottle (minimum 14 months) |
| Bottles produced: | 3500 |
I Suoli
Three friends with a love for wine and the desire to dare.
Thus was born with this motivation a new company on Etna.
I Suoli brings together three great names of the Italian wine industry:
Emiliano Falsini, a renowned oenologist of great names in wine, is an oenologist in perpetual movement. Giuseppe Russo, owner of the Girolamo Russo winery in Passopisciaro, one of the most important wineries on the volcano and the third is Dante Pasqua, a longtime friend of Giuseppe, a small winemaker himself with a vineyard in Calderara Sottana and today one of Girolamo Russo's closest collaborators. On Etna, with the purchase of a small vineyard of just over one hectare in Contrada Pignatone, in Randazzo on the north side of the volcano, they have created an oenological project with the strong desire to do something different and to experiment.
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.
