• Franchetti Terre Siciliane 2021
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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) Sicily Terre Siciliane IGT

Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

Franchetti Terre Siciliane 2021

Red still

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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) Sicily Terre Siciliane IGT
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6 bottles

€357,00

3 bottles

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Denomination Terre Siciliane IGT
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Area Sicily (Italy)
Grape varieties 60% Petit Verdot, 40% Cesanese D'Affile
Aging 6 months in new French oak barriques and 14 months in large cement vessels.
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Description

Unique blend of Petit Verdot and Cesanese d’Affile grown in contrada Guardiola at 820 m asl. The winemaker’s interpretation of a full-bodied wine on Etna.

Awards

  • 2021

    3

    One of the most prestigious wine guides in Italy.

  • 2021

    96

    /100

    Vinous is the online guide from Antonio Galloni, one of the world's leading wine connoisseurs.

  • 2021

    4

    Italian Sommelier Association (AIS) guide

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Perfume

Perfume

Mineral fragrances, followed by an olfactory deluge of black cherries and sour cherries, black cherry, raspberry, graphite and goudron, burnt citrus fruit peel, carcass and dried flowers.

Color

Color

Bright ruby mantle of medium depth.v

Taste

Taste

Mouth rich and impetuous in impact, stretched to the right point, vibrant in the sapid charge. The tannin, copious and happily integrated, tucks a very long and saturated final with aromas, on notes of china and peat.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Producer
Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
From this winery
  • Start up year: 2000
  • Oenologist: Andrea Franchetti
  • Bottles produced: 90.000
  • Hectares: 27
“Volcanoes are gloomy places, and when I arrived, Mt. Etna was even gloomier because it was an abandoned volcano. Wineries lay collapsed all over its slopes; stonewalled terraces disappeared everywhere up the mountain in the bushes. There was the misery of blackened streets and ashen churches in large old towns. These were the feelings I had in the winter of 2000 when I first came to Etna. It seemed crazy to restore vineyards so high up the mountain – above, it was erupting – but I liked that they were planted so high.

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
Production area: Sicily
Sicily
Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)

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Name Franchetti Terre Siciliane 2021
Type Red still
Denomination Terre Siciliane IGT
Vintage 2021
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Grape varieties 60% Petit Verdot, 40% Cesanese D'Affile
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Vendor Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
Origin Contrada Guardiola (Catania)
Climate Altitude: 900 m. a.s.l.
Plants per hectare 12,300 vines per Ha
Yield per hectare 17 hl
Harvest 22 October.
Production technique Spraying: sulphur, copper, propolis, lime, clay, grapefruit seed extract.
Wine making Fermentation in 30hl steel vats for 14 days.
Aging 6 months in new French oak barriques and 14 months in large cement vessels.
Allergens Contains sulphites