Alta Mora Etna Bianco DOC 2018

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.