Passopisciaro - Franchetti Terre Siciliane with Cesanese del Piglio and Petit Verdot grapes produced in the Guardiola district on Etna.
Passopisciaro - Franchetti Terre Siciliane with Cesanese del Piglio and Petit Verdot grapes produced in the Guardiola district on Etna.
Passopisciaro - Franchetti Terre Siciliane with Cesanese del Piglio and Petit Verdot grapes produced in the Guardiola district on Etna.
Passopisciaro - Franchetti Terre Siciliane with Cesanese del Piglio and Petit Verdot grapes produced in the Guardiola district on Etna.
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Passopisciaro – Franchetti Terre Siciliane – 2016

Of the whole selection, Il Franchetti has become the real symbol of the winery, born from the producer’s will to break the schemes with a more concentrated wine than the classic Etnean wines. Produced since 2005 from allochthonous grapes such as Petit Verdot and Cesanese d’Affile, it reflects the personal vision of what represents the volcano in its primordial expression in a minimalist point of view. Vineyards are located in Contrada Guardiola, rich in rock and ash, where each plant produces only 5 buds from which the best grapes are selected and fermented in steel tanks, with aging done in new French oak barriques for 6 months and 14 months in cement tanks. The year 2016 was one of the best vintages ever for climate and quality, it gave an epic wine rich in aromatic scents given by Cesanese while the Petit Verdot completes it with structure and density. A true revelation, an authentic “super-Etna” that one cannot but try at least once. Absolutely outstanding.

  • Producer: Vini Franchetti
  • Name: Franchetti Terre Siciliane
  • Grape Variety: 60%Petit Verdot 40%Cesanese d’affile
  • Vintage: 2016
  • Alcohol Content: 15,5%
  • Bottle Size: 750ml
  • Production: 4000 bottles

Productive Notes: separate fermentation of the grapes in steel tanks with aging in barrique for 6 months plus 14 months in cement tanks.

Wine naturally contains solphites

92,00€

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Description

“Advantages and oddities, this is Etna, a virgin place governed by nameless forces” this is how we could describe a true natural viticultural masterpiece as seen through the eyes of Andrea Franchetti. Illustrious and visionary oenologist, former owner of Tenuta di Trinoro in Tuscany, after a journey in Sicily fascinated by its richness decided to restore an ancient baglio in the northern side of the volcano. The winery is located above the locality of Passopisciaro in the commune of Castiglione di Sicilia at the beginning of 2000, where he planted and restored ancient abandoned vineyards of Nerello Mascalese (some of which are centenarian) together with other allochthonous varieties such as Chardonnay, Petit Verdot and Cesanese d’Affile.
Little known, Etna is characterized by altitude and climate, that is low temperatures and Mediterranean influence, in its different slopes made of fertile and drained soils, rich in minerals which give expressiveness to the grapes due to the excellent temperature range. He was the first to understand the historical subdivision of the volcano in natural micro-zones introducing the declination of “Contrade”, that is parcels located at different heights and sun exposures, formed by various layers of lava flows in which specific microclimates are in force. There are 28 hectares of property between 500 and 1000 meters above sea level which extend over 5 districts (Rampante, Sciaranuova, Guardiola, Porcaria and Chiappemacine) immersed in an untamed and preserved nature from which wines are obtained which exalt their different specificities according to the type. Neither a current nor a style of wine making is followed, there is nothing predefined if not the course of seasons where each wine is the result of quality researched in selections and aging by using naturist methods and ideas. Despite it is still mysterious to the enology, this territory was soon able to conquer the real connoisseurs making Franchetti a real beacon for the Etna’s wine rebirth in the world.

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