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What do you need to know?
- Sophisticated purchase for a knowelegable wine drinker
- Suprise your friends and serve with crisp apples slices on a beautiful dish.
- A bottle worthy of giving as a gift, keep a few on hand for taking to dinner parties or to say thanks to people who've helped you out.
- Awarded in the Top 50 for Best Italian Wine Award (BIWA)
Enjoy with: Light before dinner treats, cerviche, shellfish, summer-feel foods like crisp fennel slaw. Perfect for salady lunches.
Tasting Notes: 100% Carricante, intensely structured, a balance of lemon and pear, finely structured, rich on the palate with a firm, hints of minerality, lingering full but crisp finish
Timing: Best to be drunk 1-2 years
What is a Carricante? A white wine indigenous to Sicily, Italy. This late-ripening vine is the main variety used in the Etna DOC. It is usually found blended with Catarratto and Minella bianca. As a varietal wine, Carricante produces a fresh, straw-yellow, lightly fragrant white wine.
Etna Bianco at Alta Mora: Carricante, native variety espalier-grown over 6 hectares of vines at an altitude of 600 metres above sea level. Area of production: Milo, Praino contrada south side and Castiglione di Sicilia in the Verzella contrada, where the freshness of the land allows full ripening of the Carricante without altering its aromas.
What is DOC and DOCG?
DOC - denominazione di origine controllata or designation of controlled origin.”
There are 329 different DOCs in Italy, covering many types of wine. Each DOC has its own rules about permitted grape varieties, maximum harvest yields, and aging requirements.
DOCG - Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita
This is the highest quality level. This classification was created in 1980 DOCG wines are to be the best of what Italian wines can offer. There are now 74 DOCG wines in Italy, most of them concentrated in the regions of Piemonte, Tuscany, and the Veneto.
There are also,
VdT - Vino da Tavola. Generally regarded as "table wine", not something that makes it onto the export market. Can be from grapes grown anywhere in Italy
and IGT - Indicazione Geografica Tipica. These wines come from a specific wine growing region but may not meet all the criteria of the DOC. Some great wines can be in this category based on what the vineyard is up to. It takes one to know one.
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