Plagued by "mal di Sicilia", after more than a year in the cellar (I surprised, it is not true!) I opened the first bottle of Etna Rosso di Salvo Foti .
I felt it was the right time.
The meal right.
A muntagna is an island in the island.
A cone of snow and fog above the scorched earth and black and red and sulfur with the filigree pattern with staggered rows of orange groves and circles ancestral river for irrigation.
Agriculture Signs of a heroic and ingenious.
Citrus fruits and grapes, and pistachios; agronomic ancestral ethnicity.
impotence and alienated by the perennial grumbling.
Etna reminds us that the earth is alive, we too often forget.
Sometimes the plane, on windy days, it seems Sicily a moving ship, which chimney is Etna.
Salvo Foti for years up and down those slopes, stony and dusty blacks and vines twisted and rusty following prefillosseriche.
enclave in northern land of the south.
He took to heart in time and re-founded the workers of Vigneri once kept the delicate area of \u200b\u200bEtna.
He forgot what he studied courses in enology.
He started to make wine without mezzucci science / technology.
Perhaps, she thought, as happens to me and to many others that the vines and the wines have 5,000 years of honorable service, but modern science does not make 300 years.
Perhaps, he thought that the sciences do nothing to repair the damage caused by them.
Maybe he wanted to make wine and that's it.
Maybe he wanted to see if he could do with your hands and heart.
Character without being so shy and introspective, like many of his countrymen.
has produced a wine-colored discharge, ruby.
With a little perfume 'recalcitrant burned hay, almond, earth, smoked.
bitter taste in the mouth, acidity lively and intriguing tannins, light citrusy, smoky and earthy.
Mouth lean and sweet and bitter.
perfect eating, to drink with pork and sauce slightly citrusy.
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| Photo Salvo Foti |
Aridity from the cellar.
E 'an Etna Rosso DOC, produced in the vineyard in Contrada Calderara Feudo di Mezzo in Castiglione di Sicilia (Etna north) to 700 m above sea level ..
The vines are Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Hood, Alicante and the "Francis".
The vines are Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Hood, Alicante and the "Francis".
The vineyard is 0.5 hectares average age of the vines 100 years brought a sapling with Etna Planting of 10,000 vines per hectare.
manual cultivation with natural products.
Winemaking without temperature control with native yeasts in open wooden vats, no filtration.
racking and bottling second phases of the moon
find it costs € 35.00.
Bonne degustation
Louis
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