Wines of Sicily

"Alberta Ferretti" by Feudi del Pisciotto is a Chardonnay that plays the role of this historic Italian brand, embellishing it with an 8-month aging in barrique. The olfactory profile is fruity and intense, with echoes of ripe peach and pineapple that give life to a fresh, soft and pleasantly sapid finish.

grape variety: nerello mascalese, Merlot, Cabernet

CVA's Grillo Fileno is the best white wine in Italy

The highest score ever, among the Italian white wines offered for tasting at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2022: Fileno, harvest 2021, Grillo in purity, is the best white wine in Italy. An extraordinary result for CVA, a small but prestigious wine cooperative in the Agrigento area.

Girolamo Russo's Etna Rosso San Lorenzo was born in vineyards located in Contrada San Lorenzo (Randazzo), in the extraordinary wine-growing panorama of Etna, a terroir particularly suited to the production of wines of great value, which benefits from unique temperature ranges.

Production area: Sambuca di Sicilia (AG), Sicily. Grapes and Vinification: Grillo. The refinement of the wine is carried out in stainless steel tanks. Color and Pairing: White, excellent with fresh cheeses and fish dishes.

The Little Girl is play, curiosity, discovery. It is the wine that I have dedicated to women, to their strength, to their ability to fight for what they believe in without being frightened by difficulties. Its delicately coppery color is fascinating as a prelude to a fragrant bouquet of wild rose and wild strawberries, pomegranate, watermelon and lemon peel. Savory and crunchy on the palate, it is a very pleasant wine, whose persistence is accentuated by an iodized, almost marine finish.

An innovative white for flavor and freshness with the great versatility of an important vine of the Sicilian tradition; with clear and harmonious aromas. On the palate decisive, fruity, with an appropriate and pleasant acidity.

it is a rich and complex Nero d'Avola from the Sambuca area, a town in southern Sicily. A wine with a strong personality and an intense and harmonious character. After maceration and fermentation, the wine is aged in French and American oak barrels for at least six months. It is rich, rich in black cherries, plums and currants, all accompanied by elegant spices and some delicate oak aromas.

Grillo - Doc Sicilia with a straw yellow color with greenish reflections and an intense bouquet with hints of flowers and white pulp fruit. Ideal if combined with white meats, fish and vegetables.

Variety of Middle Eastern origin which is best expressed in Sicily thanks to the intense luminosity and uniqueness of the soils. It is a medium-late variety, ripening around the end of September. The grapes are grown both in Sambuca di Sicilia, in the province of Agrigento, and in Acate, in the province of Ragusa. In the first estate, a more mature and structured wine is obtained, while in the second, a more delicate and fruity product is obtained. The type of training used is espalier, with an average planting density of 4,500 plants per hectare. Harvesting of the grapes at perfect phenolic ripeness, destemming and alcoholic fermentation with the skins for 10-12 days at 25-26°C, malolactic fermentation with selected bacteria, maturation for 10 months in French oak barriques.

A 100% Grillo that sums up all the typical characteristics of this unique vine in an excellent way. A fresh white wine with a certain roundness that accompanies the table thanks also to a marked saline component. A sensory journey to fly with the mind to the sea of Sicily.

Feminine and sensual, Lu Còri tells of a Sicily kissed by the sun and caressed by sea breezes. Its splendid purple livery, edged with violet reflections in its youth, evolves towards ruby with the passing of the years. Ripe red fruits, especially blackberries and raspberries, characterize the bouquet, made intriguing by notes of brine and a slight spiciness. In the mouth it is fragrant, soft and velvety, with delicate tannins, perfectly integrated in a juicy and persistent finish.

A prestigious red for collectors, ambassador of two Made in Italy excellences. With an intense ruby red color, Tancredi 2016 Limited Edition combines notes of red fruit, mulberry and blueberry, with balsamic notes and delicate hints of licorice and sweet tobacco. On the palate it expresses all its enveloping personality with perfectly integrated tannins and long persistence.

From a selection of Sicilian native grapes slightly dried on the vine, this red wine of intense color is born, with the typical notes of ripe red fruits. In the mouth it releases all its persuasion with an elegant freshness and its sweet tannins.

With a light straw yellow color with greenish reflections, the nose has a rich bouquet of tropical fruits, with notes of pink grapefruit and Mediterranean herbs. On the palate it has a balanced structure with a pleasant freshness and a long savory finish.

The name originates from the harmonic perceptions that are felt at the moment of tasting. Sapid and proud in an orchestra of aromas capable of composing a wise and delicate consonance of flavors, such as Vivaldi's Primavera, due to the excellent marriage between the native grape variety par excellence, Nero d'Avola and the international Cabernet Franc .

The floral notes of orange blossom and jasmine are linked to hints of yellow peach, apricot and lychee. The citrus fruits are present and you find them on the palate. It is a harmonious, precise, clean and complex wine with an evident hint of iodized salt.

From the vinification of Nero d'Avola and Nerello Mascalese grapes, a rosé wine of great pleasure and fragrance takes shape. Intense in the aromas, elegant, savory and mineral on the palate.

Bright amber yellow, the nose expresses a wonderful olfactory profile composed of notes of apricot and peach, dried figs and honey, aromatic herbs and mineral notes. Intense and bewitching aromas, solar and Mediterranean, which open to an immense taste for complexity, perfect in the fusion of sweetness, flavor and softness. Very long, interminable, poignant. Strictly at the end of a meal, “Ben Ryé” is a perfect accompaniment to blue or very aged cheeses and foie gras. Also excellent on ricotta desserts and dry pastries.

Macramé is a name of Arab origin: it indicates a lace weave created according to an ancient marine technique with tightly intertwined yarns and knotted together by hand to form fringes. Macramé is the result of the intertwining of the Ne o 'Avola and Merlot vines with the territory (soil, climate) and the work of the men who take care of it. It requires a slight drying of the grapes already on the plant and a long maceration on the skins.

Nero d'Avola "Sherazade" is a Mediterranean red wine, dressed in spice on the nose and accompanied by hints of fresh fruit, slightly mineral and smoky. The fruit feels very good on the palate and is pleasantly refreshing. Tell stories and keep the conversation going

From the collaboration between D & ampG and Donnafugata , Rosa is born, the first Dolce and Gabbana wine, an unpublished Doc rosé wine with a fruity and floral personality, an original blend of two black grape varieties, among the most representative of Sicilian viticulture: Nerello Mascalese and Nocera . Vintage: 2020 . Winery: Donnafugata .

Vibrant and decisive, NoTrix is direct and transparent: it does not want and does not need "embellishments". It is a wine with a brilliant ruby colour, with intense and playful scents of red fruits and geranium flowers. Its solid and well integrated tannins support a palate with an agile and dynamic body, where spicy notes of ginger and star anise accompany the drink towards a saline and very persistent finish. This is how Perricone is, and this is how I like this wine to be: without tricks and without falsehoods, far from oenological models that do not belong to the Menfi winemaking tradition.

Gamma is a white wine of great finesse, dry and vertical as the Etna wines know how to be, long-lived, balanced in the play between acidity and body of the wine. It has a straw yellow color and an aroma of wild herbs and altitude flowers. --- Gamma: in physics, Gamma is the notation of the Lorenz factor, an equation that relates the dilation of time to the contraction of physical quantities, discovered at the time by Einstein. Wine makes people talk, unites people, expands the perception of time. Anyone who is passionate will experience the long chats around the emotional details that wine offers. Hours in which emotion and passion gracefully distort reality, transforming discussions around wine into pleasant journeys through history, culture and places, without moving from the table. Whenever wine is on the table, in the glass, it becomes a means for those who are passionate about it for long and passionate conversations. Culture, art, gastronomy mix with the evocation of the places where wine is produced, a virtual journey that extends for hours. Time and space confuse, wrap around flavors, colors and aromas, evoking emotions that come from often unknown lands.

The magic of Sicilian wine told by the Pollara family, in addition to highlighting the natives of the area, is also dedicated to international varieties such as Merlot, capable of exciting and giving excellent impressions. It has a great personality, it has an intense ruby red colour.

In Pantelleria, a volcanic island located between Sicily and Africa, Stefano and Simona boasts 2 hectares of vineyards and produce only 2000 bottles a year. The vine is the zibibbo, prince among the aromatic varieties, the vines are grown on a very low bush, modeled by the wind, on small terraces bordered by dry lava stone walls.

The glass is brilliant straw yellow and crystalline, with a delicate and continuous perlage. The olfactory is fresh and fragrant, floral and fruity. The same setting of the nose is repeated when tasted, where the acid shoulder is well worked, the drink is smooth, the persistence is long and the closure is pleasantly savory. Ideal to uncork for an aperitif, it is excellent with seafood salad.

Born in 1989, the "Rosso Corleone" is perhaps among the first red wines that made Nero d'Avola known and appreciated in the world. Seductive, warm, full-bodied and professional wine. With an elegant and dry taste, it is a wine for the whole meal. It goes well with meat dishes, mixed grills, game and hard cheeses.

Kabir, with a bright straw yellow color, is characterized by a complex bouquet of tropical fruit (passion fruit), floral hints of orange blossom and delicate salty nuances. In the mouth the fruity and sweet notes echo, perfectly balanced by the fresh mineral vein. Good persistence with a spicy finish of pink pepper and nutmeg.

Sottosopra is a sparkling wine obtained with the ancestral method and is bottled without prior disgorgement. If you love strong flavours, drink it as it is, with all its yeasts, or keep it upside down in the fridge for 24 hours if you want to disgorge it before tasting it. Intense golden yellow, very veiled because still on its lees. ...

Organic and Biodynamic Wine (Demeter) > Spontaneous fermentation > Natural tartaric stabilization

Nerobaronj is characterized by an intense ruby red color with violet reflections. On the nose, aromas of ripe red fruit can be perceived, such as cherry and plum, combined with spicy and slightly herbaceous notes. In the mouth it is a very structured wine, with well-present but balanced tannins and a fresh and vibrant acidity. The finish is long and persistent, with hints of fruit and spices that come together in a pleasant harmony.

Quercus Nero d'Avola Dop Sicilia is the most important Nero d'Avola of the Pollara family. It ages for 24 months in Allier and Never oak barriques. It expresses elegance, power, balance. It enhances the unique scents of the lands of Sicily.

The wind that blows on the rows and the Sicilian sun bring the Nero d'Avola grapes of this passito to the right degree of drying, making it bewitching and magnetic.

Main vine of our territory, fruity and soft, with typical light spicy notes.

Cerasuolo di Vittoria is a blend of Nero d'Avola and Frappato. The first and at the moment only Sicilian DOCG. The harvest is usually carried out between the end of September for Nero d'Avola and the first week of October for Frappato. The two vines are vinified in red separately, with a short maceration of the must with the skins at a controlled temperature and reunited at the end of the alcoholic fermentation. After a maturation of about 7 months on its lees in steel tanks, the wine ages in the bottle for 1-2 months. It has a deep cherry red color with soft purplish hues. Bouquet of fresh red fruit, peach and morello cherry with soft floral nuances. The taste is harmonious, elegant, soft and corresponding to the fruit expressed on the nose.

A prestigious red for collectors, ambassador of two Made in Italy excellences. \ n \ nWith an intense ruby red color, Tancredi 2018 Limited Edition combines notes of red fruit, mulberry and blueberry, with balsamic notes and delicate hints of licorice and sweet tobacco. On the palate it expresses all its enveloping personality with perfectly integrated tannins and long persistence.

Otherwise it is the traditional "house wine" of Menfi produced with the technique of perpetual aging in a single barrel, filled during the year and topped up with the new vintage at each harvest.

Dea Vulcano, with a light ruby red color, offers a refined bouquet with fruity notes of wild strawberry and cherry, light hints of aromatic herbs (sage) and spicy notes of black pepper and cinnamon. On the palate it is fresh and fragrant, soft with well integrated tannins and a balanced and juicy finish.

With a bright pink colour, Lumera 2022 offers a large and fragrant bouquet with notes of wild strawberries and pomegranate, combined with delicate floral scents. In the mouth it is fresh and tasty with a good structure and a pleasant persistence of fruity notes.

Passiperduti 2022 is bright straw yellow in color with greenish reflections. The nose is broad and deep with floral notes of lavender and broom; the bouquet is enriched with notes of tropical fruits and citrus scents (lime and candied citron). On the palate it has good structure and is savory, mineral and persistent; it is a wine of marked complexity and elegance.

SurSur 2022, with a bright straw yellow colour, offers the nose a fresh bouquet with captivating notes of white pulp fruit (peaches and cantaloupe melon) combined with hints of wild flowers and mint. In the mouth it is soft, with a return of fruity notes combined with a pleasant freshness.

Anthìlia has a straw yellow color. On the nose it presents a fresh and fragrant bouquet with notes of white pulp fruit (peach and medlar) combined with hints of Mediterranean scrub. In the mouth we find the evident fruity note, refreshed by a pleasant flavor. It ends with good persistence.

Damarino 2022 is the first wine in the world to use the Nomacorc Ocean cork, produced by recycling plastic collected in coastal areas, and destined to end up in the oceans. With a light straw color, Damarino combines delicate aromatic sensations of white flowers and fruity notes among which those of citrus fruits stand out. In the mouth it is delicate with a pleasant finish.

The name derives from the "black berry" fruit and from the Syracusan city of Avola. Nero d'Avola on the island was introduced several centuries ago by colonizers from Greece and then it adapted perfectly to this new environment so as to become the most famous and important black grape variety in Sicily. Until the first half of the 20th century, Nero d'Avola wine was used almost exclusively as a blending wine, in recent decades Sicilian winemakers have started the production of this wine alone with truly excellent results.

Grillo is a white grape variety widespread above all in western Sicily. The probable origin lies in what Baron Mendola wrote in 1874: “white Catarratto seed artificially fertilized with Zibibbo in the flowering of 1869 in my Piana dei Peri vineyard near Favara […] . The same wrote also in 1904 "I hybridized the common Catarratto of Sicily […] neck Zibibbo, to be able to make a more aromatic Marsala". The Grillo initially finds its origin in the Marsala area and then in the other provinces of the island. Il Grillo is capable of giving wines with a high alcohol content and then having the vocation of being particularly predisposed to ageing. The best Marsala is obtained by vinifying Grillo.

The San Lorenzo Piano delle Colombe magnum Etna Rosso DOC wine is a label signed by Girolamo Russo. With marked organoleptic characteristics, it is the perfect companion for robust first courses, grilled red meats, game, venison and noble poultry. Harmonious and characteristic, the San Lorenzo Piano delle Colombe magnum Etna Rosso DOC wine preserves the richness of the Nerello Mascalese grapes grown in the Randazzo area (CT)

In Sicily, "coast" is the side of the hills that gently slope down to the sea, covered by vineyards as far as the eye can see that bask in the sun, unkempt by the fresh Mediterranean breezes. These are the places of Grillo, a fascinating native variety that interprets the beauty of the Menfi terroir with great personality. Son of generous lands, Coste al Vento gives us a full and ripe fruit that blends with the brackish notes brought by the sea winds, in a harmonious crescendo made original by maceration on the skins and fermentation with indigenous yeasts.

Outspoken Cabernet Sauvignon Sicily IGP Dei Principi di Spadafora. An extraordinary pure Sicilian wine, an organic Cabernet Sauvignon with an intense purple-red color and a rich, intense, fruity aroma. The taste is intense, fruity and clear aroma. full and round, soft and well present tannins.

Wine produced from organically grown Nero d'Avola grapes on the Sambuca di Sicilia estate, in the province of Agrigento. The vines are covered with grass and set on a gentle hill (300 meters slm ) which is particularly ventilated and characterized by clayey soils. The vineyard is located in the area of the company most exposed to winds and currents, so as to minimize the pressure of cryptogams.

Wine produced from grillo grapes grown organically on the Sambuca di Sicilia estate, in the province of Agrigento. The vineyard is grassed and grows on calcareous soils at about 200 meters slm in the shade of a wonderful tuff quarry, caressed by the winds that arrive from the nearby Mediterranean.

An elegant white, with well-marked mineral notes and a persistent and pleasant flavor on the palate. Excellent glass to combine, in order to be able to savor its exceptional qualities to the fullest, with seafood first courses, grilled roasted fish, shellfish and seafood appetizers.

Quercus Nero d'Avola Dop Sicilia is the most important Nero d'Avola of the Pollara family. It ages for 24 months in Allier and Never oak barriques. It expresses elegance, power, balance. It enhances the unique scents of the lands of Sicily.

Typical olfactory profile outlined by the magmatic and balsamic traits of the territory within which the varietal notes of Mediterranean scrub are expressed, rich in berries and wild aromatic herbs, blueberries and cassis, embellished with fine spiciness.

Obtained from Chardonnay grapes from low-yield vineyards. Fermented and left to mature in French oak barrels, it is a wine as elegant as it is powerful. Sinedie is a white wine but at the same time capable of a long aging in the bottle, if well kept in the cellar.

The palace illustrated on the label is the one where Queen Maria Carolina took refuge on the run from Naples and was the favorite home of the writer Tomasi di Lampedusa in Santa Margherita Belice. Gabriella Anca Rallo captures the image of it and embeds it in a "Thousand and One Nights" sky full of stars and full of promise. First vintage: 1995. The grapes, harvested in September, are vinified in steel, with maceration on the skins for about 12 days, at a temperature of 26-30 ° C. After malolactic fermentation, the wine passes mainly in French oak barriques for 14-16 months, and then refines in the bottle for at least 24 months. The Mille e una Notte is characterized by a ruby red color. The nose offers an enveloping bouquet in which notes of tobacco and cocoa stand out. On the palate the olfactory scents are repeated, on a fruity background of black mulberries and cherries. The wine is also full and complex, with elegant tannins. Perfect to accompany red meats, pork and lamb, it is ideal in combination with fish-based dishes.

This Cabernet Sauvignon is dressed in the iconic and unmistakable Missoni texture. Obtained from vines located 100 meters above sea level, it reveals aromas of Mediterranean scrub, with its flowers and vegetable shrubs. Spices and sanguine notes close a complex olfactory sensation. Powerful sip and supported by a precise and pleasant freshness.

Zibibbo Liquoroso IGT Terre siciliane Yellow in color with golden reflections, it has an intense aroma of orange blossom, lemon, honey and acacia. On the palate it is sweet and enveloping with a full and long finish.

A prestigious red for collectors, ambassador of two Made in Italy excellences. \ n \ nWith an intense ruby red color, Tancredi 2018 Limited Edition combines notes of red fruit, mulberry and blueberry, with balsamic notes and delicate hints of licorice and sweet tobacco. On the palate it expresses all its enveloping personality with perfectly integrated tannins and long persistence.

A prestigious red for collectors, ambassador of two Made in Italy excellences. With an intense ruby red color, Tancredi 2018 Limited Edition combines notes of red fruit, mulberry and blueberry, with balsamic notes and delicate hints of licorice and sweet tobacco. On the palate it expresses all its enveloping personality with perfectly integrated tannins and long persistence.

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Sicilia Nero d'Avola Riserva DOC Sciarra Soprana is among the most representative labels of the Vito Curatolo Arini winery which, since the end of the 1800s, has dedicated itself to the production of typical wines of the Sicilian land and in particular those of the province of Trapani, where they home to its vineyards. In the hilly area near Sciarra Soprana, then, the ideal microclimatic conditions are created for the ripening of quality grapes, thanks to the presence of the right ventilation, the heat and the proximity of the sea as well as a terroir that contributes to the correct concentration of sugars , favoring the balance of acidity. This Sicilia Nero d'Avola Riserva DOC Sciarra Soprana comes from the typical native Nero d'Avola vine in purity, with an intense ruby red color, which is complex and full-bodied on the palate. After a traditional type of hand-picking, the wine is left to rest for at least 9 months in French oak barrels and it is in this phase that it acquires all the organoleptic characteristics that represent it. In the glass it has a really dark, almost inky colour, varietal spiced notes emerge on the nose, as well as berries; a nice body and a pleasant enveloping taste, where it expresses intensity, strength, I would even say complexity and above all a length, therefore a surprising final persistence.

The only international variety among Curatolo Arini wines finds one of its maximum expressions in Sicily. Intense ruby red color with violet reflections, the nose offers notes of red fruits, plums, spices, black pepper and vanilla.

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