Custodi d'Etna - 'Pistus' Etna Rosso 2016

Custodi d'Etna - 'Pistus' Etna Rosso 2016

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"A more complex style of Nerello Mascalese showing a few more black fruit and super ripe red fruit flavours. A lot more earthy, spicy and intense red cherry and red plum flavours on the nose here. A touch of black pepper and licorice as it opens up and then a whiff of balsamic and leather. Love it."

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------

I Custodi d'Etna

I Custodi are the keepers, the guardians of Mt. Etna’s vineyards: to guard means to preserve the land, to maintain the traditions and to respect the people.

From these values and from the love for a beautiful land, where the vine was brought by man more than two millennia ago, spring the wines of I Custodi, the result of the generosity and the minerality of the warm volcanic soil, the cold of the Muntagna and the sun of Sicily.

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Nerello Mascalese

Nerello Mascalese is a red grape variety that comes from Italy, It is indigenous to Etna, Sicily, and was first mentioned in the 18th century. It is a child of Sangiovese and Mantonico Bianco. Nerello Mascalese is one of the most important native grape varieties across the vineyards of Sicily. Though it shines as the dominant variety in Etna Rosso blends. Siciliy has 3,985ha devoted to it.

 

--------THE REGION--------

Sicily

Sicily is the island off the south coast of Italy. It is famous for being home to Mt Etna - now a region that is producing some of Sicily's most exciting red and white wines. Overall, Sicily is home to a raft of interesting whites and reds that are light and interesting to fuller in body and age-worthy.