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Etna Rosso, 'Guardiola,' Terre Nere |
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Tenuta delle Terre Nere |
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Item Code: |
ITE-099 |
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Appellation: |
Etna Rosso |
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Region: |
Sicily |
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Country: |
Italy |
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Varietal: |
NERELLO |
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Wine Type: |
STILL |
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Vintage: |
2010 |
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Wine Information:
The Guardiola Cru is comprised of 2 vineyards planted to 100% Nerello Mascalese, a native Sicilian grape, for a total of 2.1 hectares. Both are almost all pre-phylloxera, except for individual replanted vines (450 vines were replanted in Guardiola in 2005). Training is traditional en goblet 1 X 1 meter tight traditional spacing, steep and terraced, which means the vineyards have to be worked by hand.
At 800-900 meters above sea level on the north side of Mount Etna, the Guardiola vineyard is the highest red-wine producing vineyard in all of Europe. (Just to give you an idea of the relative altitude, the highest vineyard sites in Montalcino only reach 500 meters above sea level!) It gets bright hot sun during the day and gentle breezes off the Gulf of Catania cool things off at night, adding to the aromatic complexity of the wine and protecting the fruit from mold and mildew during the later stages of its ripening (since it is harvested at the end of October, the weather almost always breaks before the fruit is ripe).
The elevation here is 800 to 900 meters above sea level. Above 1000 meters, perfect ripening is uncertain for red grapes, but still vineyards are planted at these altitudes. In any case, these are the highest altitude red grape vineyards in the "old world"!
Vineyard practices (all organic) and vinification are equally simple. After 10-15 days of maceration and fermentation, he wine spends 18 months in 25% new French oak barriques, though the oak doesn’t overpower the wine. It combines perfectly with the volcanic terroir that comes through brilliantly.
DOC: Etna Rosso Guardiola
Production area: Contrada Calderara, township of Castiglione.
Cru: Guardiola
Vineyard extension: 2.1 hectares (almost all prephylloxera, except for replanted vines). Very steep terracing.
Vine trellissing system: traditional “en goblet” or self standing. 1x1 meter tight traditional spacing, which means that the vineyards have to be worked by hand.
Altitude: 800-900 mts above sea level
Type of soil: Volcanic (volcanic ash and sand specked by black pumice.)
Varietal: 100% Nerello Mascalese
Vineyard age: 50 to 150 years
Alcohol%: 14 Vol
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