Organic Nero d'Avola Doc wine from Sicily

Nero d'Avola Doc Organic Wine from Sicily: Simple and minimally invasive vinifications that allow us to enhance and preserve the peculiar characteristics that the varieties take on in our territory.

Packaging: 6 bottles of 0.75 liters

The Nero d'Avola Doc Bio wine, thanks to its qualities of elegance, sumptuousness and character. It is a massive but velvety red, with depth, warm but not explosive fruit and splendid aromas of Mediterranean scrub, earth and eucalyptus.

Drawing up an organoleptic profile of the Nero d'Avola Doc Bio wine is not so simple: all of Sicily is covered with Nero d'Avola, the climatic conditions change radically and the styles are also different. You can find fruity and simple wines to drink within a couple of years and others instead very rich in extract, which mature for years in wood to age elegantly.

The fact is that the salient features are the Mediterranean balsamic aromas-flavors, eucalyptus, a certain underlying austerity, the fruit can be ripe, but it is never a fruity bomb in the Bolgheri–Super Tuscan style. The Vino Nero d'Avola Doc Bio is a sumptuous, balanced, but extremely dry wine, a wine that is thirsty, you can perceive the flavors of the hottest Sicily, the sun beating down relentlessly with the sea breeze howling in the distance. It is not a dry wine, but don't expect much softness.

The Grillo family, producers of the Nero d'Avola Doc Bio wine , have been cultivating their land for three generations, using exclusively organic methods. In particular, numerous hectares are dedicated to the cultivation of vineyards with native grapes; a small part is intended for olive groves, of the Nocellara del Belìce and Cerasuola varieties; a considerable area is reserved for the cultivation of a vegetable garden and various fruit trees; finally, a small plot of the company is dedicated to the production of durum wheat.

Characteristics:

• Product: Nero d'Avola – DOC Sicilia

• Cultivation method: Organic farming

• Place of production: Contrada Scanza – Bruca (TP)

• Grape variety: 100% Nero d'Avola

• Bottle size: 750 ml

• Soil type: flat, sandy loam

• Altitude: 350 meters above sea level

• Year of planting: 2008

• Training system: Guyot-trained espalier system

• Plants per hectare: 3,200

• Yield per hectare: 70 quintals

• Harvest period: first ten days of September with manual harvesting and selection of bunches.

• Vinification: maceration for approximately 12 days at a controlled temperature, aging for 8 months in steel tanks and at least 3 months in the bottle.

• Organoleptic characteristics: ruby ​​red color with violet reflections; nose with intense and fresh notes of red fruit alternating with light balsamic hints; good structure and freshness on the palate.

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We are committed to bringing to your home the best taste and freshness that the Sicilian artisan food and wine tradition has to offer!

For this reason, ordinary delivery times, from the moment of notification of shipment, are generally between 7 and 15 working days:

• In some cases the products are immediately available and ready to leave in a short time and therefore we will proceed with shipping immediately! Shipping within the national territory can also affect the speed.
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Important information for USA Customers : unfortunately at the moment we CANNOT ship ALCOHOL and FISH IN OIL.

Important information for SWITZERLAND and UK customers: unfortunately we CANNOT ship ALCOHOL at the moment.

However, let's remember that all the other products are available... and delicious! Thank you.