KAID Syrah DOC Alessandro di Camporeale

Wine type: DOC Sicilia - BIO

Grape variety: 100% Syrah 

Soil composition: hilly, clay, and calcareous, with high presence of skeleton

Altitude: 330-400 meters above sea level

Age of vines: 1989

Production area: Contrada Mandranova in the Camporeale countryside

Training system: espalier training with spurred cordon pruning

No. of vines/hectare: 4.400

Yield/hectare: 6.5 tonnes

Harvest period: first ten days of September with manual harvest and grape selection

Maceration: about 12 days at a constant temperature (10°C)

Alcoholic fermentation: about 7 days in steel tanks (23-26°C)

Malolactic fermentation: fully carried out in stainless steel tanks

Ageing: 12 months in French oak tonneaux

Bottle ageing: 6 months at controlled temperature (18°C)

Colour: ruby red, dark and opaque with violet glints

Aroma: rich and elegant, with notes of black cherries, blackcurrants, cocoa, graphite, humus, roasted coffee, rhubarb, black pepper and cloves which create an intriguing and charming bouque

Taste: powerful, velvety and confident, Kaid is a territorial and Mediterranean wine which seduces with its unmistakable personality, that combines its full body structure with the lively impulsiveness of its well-balanced tannin content

Serving temperatur: 16-18°C

Food pairing: remarkable with a tasty Sicilian falsomagro (stuffed meat roll with sauce) and braised black pig

Bottled at the origin at the Cooperative Company Alessandro di Camporeale Contrada Mandranova, 90043 Camporeale (PA)