Nero d’Avola

Box with 6 bottles of Nero d’Avola DOC Vittoria

Grapes: Nero d’Avola

Description: Wine with a strong personality, complex just like Sicily!

Refinement: 9 months in stainless steel, at least 12 months in bottle

Alcohol content: 13,5% vol

Serving temp.: 16-18°C

Pairings: Cured and spicy cheeses, complex first courses, red meat, venison, lamb, mushrooms

Eye: Ruby red with violet highlights

Nose: Small red fruits, cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, pomegranate, orange peel, carob, aromatic herbs, graphite, black pepper

Palate: Fresh and balanced, persistent and tasty, soft and mature tannins

It pairs with appetizers, mature cheese, Ragusano DOP cheese, cold meats, red and white meats, pig. Nero D’Avola red grapes , also called “Calabrese”, are a very old Sicilian grape variety. It has always been grown on hillsides of the Hyblaean Mountains in the province of Ragusa. The second name attributed to it, that is to say “Calabrese”, is nothing but an Italianization of a word in Sicilian dialect, “Calaurisi”, which is composed of two words, “cala” (a Sicilian word to refer to grapes) and “aurisi” (a Sicilian word which stands for the Italian “Avolese” and it means “from Avola”).