Contrada Blandado Etna Blanc 2016

In both taste and smell impressive with honey, ripe fruit like peach and a beautiful minerality. Fine acids and an impressively long aftertaste.

Appellation Etna Bianco

Grape variety cataratto, carricante

Style Rich & Round

Format 750 ml

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€33.80

The winemaker

Winemaker	Country	Region
Terra Costantino	Italy	Sicilië

About the winemaker The Costantino family's vineyards can be found on the southeastern slopes of Mount Etna. Father Dino, with his son Fabio, has since learned that the vineyards can produce tremendous quality and, with great passion for their land, have built a wonderful winery with a ditto reputation. This wine estate has been fully certified organic for years and only autochthonous varieties are planted on the approximately 10 hectares of vineyards. Some of the vineyards have a planting density of 5,00 vines per hectare, while there are also vineyards with some 8,000 vines per hectare.

Vineyard management Certified Organic

Details

Vineyard	The vineyards for this wine are located on the southeastern flank of Mount Etna at about 450 meters altitude, near Viagrande north of Catania. The soil here consists of volcanic rock and volcanic sand. With a planting density of 6,500 vines per hectare and various pruning methods, the yield is about 30 hl/ha.
Vinification	After the manual harvest, the grapes are immediately pressed and there is a cold stabilization, then follows a fermentation at 14°C-16°C. The wine is raised on wood for several months. After bottling there is a bottle aging for several months. Composition is 90% carricante, 10% catarratto.
Vintage	2016
Oak aging	Yes
Ageing potential	10 years and more after harvest
Alcohol percentage	13.5%
Closure	Natural cork