BENANTI CONTRADA CAVALIERE ETNA ROSSO 2022

Style: Rocks & Minerals

An innovative vision with the goal of producing excellent wines: this is the Benanti credo, a long established family with Bolognese origins that boasts a centuries old history. The Sicilian branch of the Benanti family was born in 1734, when a descendant was sent to Sicily by Vittorio Amedeo d¿Aosta. At the end of the nineteenth century Giuseppe Benanti began producing wine from local Etna grapes. Since those first vintages, generations of our family have been in love with making wine on the volcano, and we have transformed a passion into mastery for enhancing the peculiarities of indigenous vines in a territory that is indomitable and diverse. The research and creation of authentic wines, capable of celebrating the Etna terroir in its various expressions, have become a distinctive feature of our production. The Benanti family has been instrumental in Etna¿s viticulture throughout history, contributing first hand to its evolution. Now managed by Giuseppe Benanti¿s two sons, Antonio and Salvino Benanti, the winery has an annual production of about 170,000 bottles that are distributed throughout the most important markets worldwide. BENANTI

Following the manual harvest around mid October, the grapes are fully destemmed in the cellar, where fermentation with maceration takes place in stainless steel at a controlled temperature over approximately 21 days, using only indigenous Etna yeasts selected by the winery after a long direct experimentation. The wine matures in French oak tonneaux for 12 months and then in stainless steel and then it spends about 10 months in the bottles before it is released. The wine has a noble ruby color. On the nose, aromas of red fruit merge with warming herbs and spices. The palate is dry, medium- to full-bodied and structured with ripe tannins and a persistent, harmonious finish. BENANTI

Region : Mt Etna, SICILY

Variety: Nerello Mascalese 

ABV: 14%

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