Riserva Red Wine Maria Costanza 2013 - Cantina Milazzo

Maria Costanza Rosso Riserva 2013 Red Wine SICILY DOP - Az. Agr. Giuseppe Milazzo

The new Milazzo label, certainly this Nero d'Avola, fully expresses the great thickness of the prince of Sicilian vines, achieving a sensory balance of great elegance and gustatory complexity.

Harvest of 2013 and bottling in November 2016, this is a wine that has an aging potential of over 20 years.

Of a beautiful deep dark red color, almost impenetrable, Maria Costanza Rosso Riserva has evident hints of spiciness, green pepper and unroasted cocoa berry, followed by fresh red fruits such as blueberry and black currant. On the finish, light toasting notes that recall incense. In the mouth it is full, intense and enveloping. The tannin is strong, rich and of excellent quality. Structure and freshness guarantee a remarkable persistence and drinkability.

The Maria Costanza Rosso Riserva represents the culmination of the agronomic research work and winemaking on our Nero d'Avola clones, to give life to a new red wine that, in the furrow of the company tradition built on the success of his Maria Costanza Rosso, open new ones roads for the interpretation of the largest Sicilian native grape variety

FARMING: organic certified
GRAPE VARIETIES: Nero d’Avola
VINEYARDS: Milici 
FIRST VINTAGE: 2013
VINES’ AVERAGE AGE: over 30 years old
SOIL: plateau of marl origin with high clay component strongly calcareous. - North side on a gentle slope, deep organic soil
TRAINING SYSTEM: spur cordon pruning
PLANTS PER HECTAR: over 6000
AVERAGE YIELD PER HECTAR: 80 Qt.
HARVEST: mid October
HARVEST METHOD: grapes selection on the plant, manual harvesting in small crates of about 14 kg
VINIFICATION: the clusters were gently destemmed with final selection of the berries. The grapes were then trasferred in horizontal roto-fermenters for15 days, in order to complete the alcoholic fermentation. The malolactic fermentation was completed in oak barriques
REFINING: about 24 months in oak barrels, complete with about a year in stainless steel tanks steel. It was bottled in the autumn of 2016
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14 % by Volume
PAIRINGS: Perfect with dishes based on vegetables, roasted meats, game and cheeses of medium or long maturation
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 17 - 18° C
AGING POTENTIAL: over 20 years

The Maria Costanza Rosso Riserva represents the culmination of the agronomic research work and winemaking on our Nero d'Avola clones, to give life to a new red wine that, in the furrow of the company tradition built on the success of his Maria Costanza Rosso, open new ones roads for the interpretation of the largest Sicilian native grape variety.
CULTIVATION ENVIRONMENT
This small area has been selected from the different sub areas that make up the cuvée Maria Costanza Rosso, the company's historical label, both for the peculiarities of the clone that there is implanted, which for the specific characteristics of the soil and climatic conditions. A soil with a strongly calcareous matrix and strong varietal expressiveness. Given these factors it is it was chosen to intervene in the vineyard with a very thorough thinning, in order to enhance the maximum the aromatic and phenolic variety of the varietal. Meticulous attention and care daily of the vineyard to follow, step by step, the evolution up to the time of collection
SENSORY PROFILE
Deep dark red color and almost impenetrable. Evident hints of spiciness, green pepper and unroasted cocoa berry, followed by fresh red fruits such as blueberry and black currant. On the ending light roasting notes that recall incense. In the mouth it is full, intense and enveloping. The tannin is strong, rich and of excellent quality. Structure and freshness guarantee a remarkable persistence and drinkability..

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