“Temperatures”
Etna is a mountain that rises to three thousand three hundred meters, all covered with snow during the winter. Summer preserves, steeply in the last thousand meters of altitude , cold temperatures that go down every day to overcome the heat of Sicily.
The daytime temperature on the north side, where the vineyards are located, is over 15 ° C lower than that of the coast and that coolness prepares elegant and full wines. The temperature at night is even very cold during the most important months for grapes, that September and October when it delays and adds imperviousness and durability to the wines.
“Light”
The light of Etna does not come from the sun but comes from things, which it has wrapped in tulle. This passage evokes a rich and poetic description, possibly referring to the unique, atmospheric qualities of places where great wines are produced, like the regions of Bordeaux. It highlights how light interacts with the environment, diffusing in a way that enhances the character of the land and its products, like wine. The mention of the volcano and the two seas suggests an area with a dramatic, powerful landscape, where natural forces (like light and volcanoes) shape the experience of both the land and the wine.
In this shadowless matter you will find the leaves immersed on each side, the vines aroused by triple photosynthesis, lit the T-shirts, inspired the winemakers, and above all made the winemakers who live there ingenious and visionary, together with their talent.
“Ground”
Fifty kilometers in diameter and hundreds of mouths that have scattered overlapping lavas, shells of Etna where the vines root, which have come to the surface from very different quadrants of the subsoil; a lava flows , flows liquid or dense, eventually stops, expands, spreads. This floor, cooled to various heights between one thousand three hundred and five hundred meters, affirms itself and constitutes a property for a few centuries. The place, below, has the old feudal name and becomes ” contrada “.
Thus, each district makes a wine different from the other, as they knew until the postwar period, because the plants grow on different mineral springs ; moreover, these have cooled down in the granulometries: scree, gravel or powder; furthermore, they are suspended at a thousand or five hundred meters.
Therefore, the word cru, which means environment of organoleptic suggestion, cannot have a stronger meaning than that of the Etna district.
The arrival of new producers began with mine, in 2000, and our vinifications have highlighted and reflected, even
equal, the prestigious superiors who in ancient times already owned some famous districts. There are about ten and they reappear often
Up on the Etna Renaissance wine labels.
