Made from very fine Nerello Mascalese (98%) and a small amount of Nerello Cappuccio from low yielding, volanic vineyards on the North side of the mountain. From a mixture of both young and old plantings between 6 and 50 years of age.
The grapes are macerated until fermentation is complete, then is aged in wood until bottled roughly one year after harvest. Even in its early years it is a distinguished wine showing a fresh, fragrant, beautifully slender wine and with fine tannins. There is a natural polish here, a confident stage presence, as it were. As the wine ages we anticipate an increasingly rich complexity. A very food-friendly wine, open this bottle with a wide variety of dishes.
10,000 cases produced annually.
The Winery
Calogero Statella and his wife, Rita, were both born and raised in the shadow of Mt. Etna, growing up in the land of black soils and raining lava ash.
Since 2003, Calogera has also crafted wines for the famed Tenuta delle Terre Nere, helping establish their fame as one of Etna's premier producers. But the Statella's had long dreamed of owning their own family vineyard and wine under their own label.
That dream became a reality in 2015 and they still manage every stage of bringing this organic wine to life.
