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£13.00
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75cl bottle.
Organic, Vegan, Vegetarian.
Our No Sulphur Added Nostru Nero d’Avola is really something quite different. It has a unique mouth-feel, it is soft and well-rounded, with the purest of black fruits flavours coming through.
The grapes are 100% Nero d’Avola from Azienda Agricola Cortese, our organic estate in Vittoria, south eastern Sicily. The grapes are very carefully selected by hand in the middle of September, brought to the winery in small containers and processed immediately.
The wine is sustainably produced, organic, made from indigenous, ancient grape varieties.
Perfect to be served with Mediterranean dishes, roasts of red meat, game, mushrooms and tasty cheeses.
Taking tradition as inspiration, Girelli employs ancient wine-making techniques such as fermentation in terracotta, which allows skin-contact for a particularly long time. The wine is fermented on the skins, finishing the fermentation in bottle, and they keep the wine on its fine lees for at least nine months. Fermentation in open barriques means that they can ferment really small parcels of wine at any one time – a kind of micro-fermentation.
Critic Reviews:
On closer inspection of the vineyards, despite their wild appearance, it transpired that there were a lot of very old and extremely interesting vines which were producing excellent fruit, so it was decided to carry out the vintage, rather than start on the maintenance immediately and surprisingly good results were achieved. During the harvest period it became clear that these mature vineyards had some unique clones – something really different – and that the fully ripened grapes were truly exceptional, despite the condition of the vineyards. All of the grapes for the top range, “Cortese Selezione”, are grown on the estate.