4 Filari Grillo 2021 Case Alte Sicilia Doc Sicilian organic wine

The Grillo of the Case Alte winery, from organically grown grapes, is a well-balanced, fragrant wine with a refreshing taste

The white wine Grillo 4 Filari is a fresh and fragrant wine, strongly representative of the variety used. With a bright straw yellow color, with greenish hues, the nose shows tropical notes such as grapefruit, elderberry, figs alternating with delicate notes of orange blossom and bread crust. At the sip it is of great breadth, characterized by a good acid shoulder and great sapidity on the finish.

Obtained from vines placed at about 500 meters above sea level on a sandy-loam soil with a good presence of skeleton. The 4 Filari is obtained from a harvest carried out in the early hours of the sun which are then sent to alcoholic fermentation, after decanting for a day, in steel vats, where the wine also ages for 6 months on the fine lees with weekly battonage .

To drink throughout the meal, it accompanies fish appetizers, white meats, fresh and aged cheeses, shellfish and salads

Produced in the province of Palermo, in the Mazara Valley, in Camporeale, a small Sicilian town with a local economy linked to agriculture. Here the Vaccaro family manages the Case Alte farm, in the Macellarotto district, managing the vineyards under organic conditions. For three generations, the Vaccaro family, through careful and scrupulous control of the phases that characterize the production of wine, from the vineyard to bottling, has been producing excellent wines with excellent organoleptic characteristics, which are able to express the characteristics and richness of the Sicilian land.

The name "Case Alte" derives from the fact that the small winery, built in 2010, is located on top of a promontory about 500 meters high, with a sandy loam soil and an island climate.

The current winemaking project involves the development of the entire production chain in the small universe of the Macellaroto district, and aims to maintain a small size, on a human scale, which ensures careful and meticulous control of all stages of the production process, from the vineyard to bottling. The history of Case Alte and the Vaccaro family is a bit of a mirror of today's Sicily; one in which the new generations get involved and face with determination the challenge of producing excellence and communicating their passion, their territory and their culture to the whole world. A love that looks to the future, with particular attention to the issues of sustainability and organic farming, but which does not forget its history and the care that past generations have dedicated to each single bunch of grapes.

VARIETY Grillo

ALC. VOL. 13.5%

Annual production 2016: 1320

Soils: hilly, clayish and sandy

Altitude: 500 meters above sea level

Ages of vines: 2005

Training system: espalier rearing with Guyot pruning

Viticulture: vineyard conducted according to the principles of biological agriculture with thinning of the bunches in pre-veraison.

No. of vines/hectare: 3.600

Yield/hectare: 6.0 tonnes

Harvesting: manual harvest and grape selection through small case of 8 kg. After harvest grapes are carried rapidly to the cellar.

Fermentation: some hours after harvest grapes are sofftly crushed, after 24 hourse of settling fermentation has done by yeast selection at 15°C.

Aging: 6 months in steel tanks on the fine lees at a temperature 10°C with weekly battonage and 2 months in the bottle before release.

TASTING NOTES

Colour: straw yellow with bright green reflections.

On the nose: tropical notes like grapefruit, elderberry, fig trees alternate with delicate notes of orange blossom and crusty bread.

On the palate: full-width, characterized by good acidity and great flavor on the finish.