Barbazzale Rosso Cottanera
The Company's autochthonous red wines are Nerello Mascalese and Cappuccio, traditionally produced around Mt. Etna, alongside with the international Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Mondeuse. The white wines include, the autochthonous Inzolia and Carricante, and the international Viogner.
Vines: 90 % Nerello Mascalese 10% Nero d'Avola
Soil: prevalently lavic
Production: 10 t/ha
From the growth: cordon spur
Vinification: different pump-over per day
Maceration: traditionally short for Nerello Mascalese longer for Nero d’Avola
Ageing: malolactic fermentation in steel and successively about 50% is aged in barriques for 4 months
Colour: steals bright
Nose: fruit, floral
Palate: full-bodied, tannin
Analytic data: alcohol 13.5°, pH 3.40, total acidity 7 g/l
Characteristics: good steals bright with fragrant perfumes of small red fruit, raspberries and blackberries and flowers of field.
Food Pairing Suggestions: soup of fish and skewers of meat
Bottled at the origin by AZIENDA AGRICOLA COTTANERA DEI FRATELLI CAMBRIA CASTIGLIONE DI SICILIA (CT) ITALY
- Alcohol level
- 13.5%
- Cellars
- Cottanera
- Grapes
- Nerello Mascalese - Nerello Cappuccio
- Region
- Sicily
- Appellation
- Etna DOC
Two brothers Guglielmo and Enzo Cambria have created the Cottanera farming enterprise obtaining the millenial inheritance and giving life once again to a vine growing and wine producing area which has no equal in the world.
In the South and in particular for Sicily, the Etna area is equipped with unique possibilities to produce wines of great finesse, balance and body with elegant aromas and above all with rather high acidity values that give the wines produced freshness of aromas and flavors and good storage and aging capacity over time especially of red wines which here traditionally are based on Nerello Mascalese, with a small presence of Nero d'Avola, the most widespread and most important grape in the region, in addition to Nerello Cappuccio.
It was a difficult task, on the limits of the impossible, realized thanks to a plan based on quality, that quality which is not only a beautiful word but is made up of intelligence, energy, will, transport, faith and above all passion.
A passion which, like the lava in the bowels of the mountain, runs in the veins of men capable of great enterprises.
