Wines

Etna Rosso doc

Wine with a ruby red color tending to purplish. The nose expresses very fine and delicate notes of small red fruits, mineral stamps, wild spices, medicinal herbs and cloves. Balanced and harmonious wine, well structured, with mineral veins, savoury and persistent finish, and great elegance

Technical Specifications
Climate	high hills, with significant temperature variations between day and night
Soil:	volcanic sand, deep, fertile and rich in microelements, with subacid reaction
Altitude	700 m.a.s.l.
Grape variety:	Nerello Mascalese 100%
Training system	alberello technique (free standing “little trees”), some vines are centennial and ungrafted
Density of implantation	7000 stumps per hectare
Yield	6,0-7,0 tons/ha
Alcohol content	13,5%
Grape harvest:	handpicked with selection of the bunches
Vinification:	manually harvested grapes are partially de-stemmed and fermented by the indigenous yeasts, with a 15 days maceration of the wine with the skins. The wine is aged for about 12 months in oak barrels, then it’s moved into a steel tank where it is decanted naturally and bottled without any clarification or filtration process
Ageing in the bottle	at least 6 months
Estimated aging capacity	at least 10 years
Tasting temperature	16-18°C

Massimo Lentsch

Massimo Lentsch wanted to embark on another adventure on volcanic soil, this time challenging Mount Etna, an eruptive volcano, to create a niche wine production with unique characteristics of charm and elegance. All operations are carried out strictly by hand. The grape ripening stages are controlled for each individual plant, and the harvest is wisely decided on the basis of what you want to get from the final product. The differentiated management of each single vine allows to provide promptly and effectively to every need, and to fully understand the dynamics of the complex "vineyard system”.

Vigna Cosentino, from which the Cru Etna Rosso DOC Cosentino is produced, is characterised by centenary trees, with various pre-phylloxera and free foot plants. The classic Etna Rosso DOC San Teodoro is produced from the vineyard just below the terraces that collect these splendid old vines. Also in this vineyard there are saplings with a free foot and well over sixty years old.

Sicilia

Like much of the Italian mainland, Sicily’s winemakers have moved away from producing high-volume, unremarkable wines, to focus on quality wines of great character. Its dry, well-structured red and white wines could not be further removed from the sweet Marsala and Moscato of the island’s past, and this has not gone unnoticed by international markets that have never had such a thirst for Sicilian wines. Sicilian producers have paved the way for other Southern Italian winemakers to begin to exploit the country’s rich environmental diversity, with wines that achieve the potential first admired by the Greeks and Romans.