Sole di Sesta Cottanera
Syrah Sole di Sesta - Cottanera winery
Ruby red in color with violet reflections, Syrah Sole di Sesta has notes of red fruit in good synergy with a fresh Mediterranean nuance and a base where spicy notes of chocolate and black pepper stand out. Produced in Castiglione di Sicilia, on the northern slope of Etna, Sole di Sesta is a warm and sunny Sicilian red wine with mineral finesse that is typical of volcanic soil.
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Sole di Sesta from the Cottanera winery is a Sicilian red wine made from 100% Syrah grapes. An international vine that has found the perfect conditions in the extraordinary terroir of Etna to give us this captivating, warm Syrah with noble tannins.
Classification: DOC Sicilia
Grape variety: 100% Syrah
Production area: Contrada Cottanera, Contrada Feudo di Mezzo in the municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia
Altitude: 750 m asl
Soil: lava
Training system: espalier
Average age of vines: 25 years
Vine density: 5700 plants/ha
Yield: 60 quintals/ha
Harvest: manual with small crates; second ten days of September
Vinification: destemming and maceration with skin contact at controlled temperature, 26-28°C, for about 20-25 days
Fermentation: at controlled temperature, 26-28°C, with constant pumping of must over grapes and wine-pressing. Malolactic fermentation in 225 lt French oak barrels
Aging: 12-14 months in medium and heavy toast French oak barrels (45% new). Followed by 18 months aging in bottle
Alcohol content: 13.5% vol
Colour: ruby red with violet reflections
Nose: notes of sweet fruit and fresh Mediterranean nuances, combine with spicy notes of chocolate and black pepper
Palate: a captivating taste, full, balanced, rich in pulp. The noble tannins are supported by a good acidity
Pairings: first courses with meat sauces such us Lasagna Bolognese, game, aged cheese
Produced and bottled by Cottanera S.r.l. - Castiglione di Sicilia (CT) - Italy
- Alcohol level
- 13.5%
- Cellars
- Cottanera
- Grapes
- Syrah
- Region
- Sicily
- Appellation
- Sicilia 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.
