Contrada Blandado Etna Rosso 2016

Grapes come from Viagrande, the most important part of Scania. The best nerello mascalese and nerello cappuccio are selected for this wine. Refined style with body, power and structure.

Appellation Etna Rosso

Grape variety nerello mascalese, nerello cappuccio

Style Rich & Exuberant

Format 750 ml

In Stock

€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 450-550 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 55 hl/ha. The vines are on average 35 years old.
Vinification	After the manual harvest, the grapes are destemmed and then a skin soaking of 20 days follows. The must is pumped over the cap several times during this process. The wine spends 12 months in both stainless steel and oak barrels of various sizes. After bottling, there is an additional bottle aging of several months. 90% nerello mascalese, 10% nerello cappuccio.
Vintage	2016
Oak aging	Partially
Ageing potential	up to 8 years after harvest
Alcohol percentage	13.5%
Closure	Natural cork