CATARRATTO
Experience new sensations!
Elisir, a late-harvest of Catarratto grapes, is a limited and excellent production that combines passion, simplicity and tradition with the use of a particular agricultural technique: the girdling of the branches. A special incision on the vine shoots favours the ripening of the grapes with a major accumulation of sugars and mineral substances, guaranteeing a Catarratto that is sweeter, yet balanced by its minerality. Elisir is naturally sweet but never cloying, with persistence of taste and without added alcohol or sulphites, an exciting wine that helps experience new sensations!
TECHNICAL SHEET
- Name: Elisir
- Type of wine: White
- Area: Contrada Bellusa – Salemi
- Altitude/Exposure: 160m a.s.l., East-West
- Soil composition: Medium permeability, tending to calcareous
- Appellation: IGP Terre Siciliane
- Variety: Catarratto
- Harvest: Manually, 1st decade of October
- Winemaking: 40 days of skin contact, pressing and 1,5 year of ageing in a single chestnut barrel
- Colour: Golden yellow with amber reflections
- Nose: Hints of honey and honeyed quinces, slightly but pleasantly oxidised flavour
- Taste: Medium-bodied yet fresh, very smooth and slightly salty
- Alcohol: 15°
- Total amount of sulphites: 8 mg/l (no added sulphites)
- Serving temperature: 16° – 18°C
- Amount of bottles produced: 450
