I Vigneri 'Vinupetra' Etna Rosso Superiore DOC 2023
Vinupetra : a Sicilian dialect word meaning "wine produced in stony soil." The vineyard is cultivated by hand using natural products. No biotechnology is used in the winemaking process. District: Porcaria in the municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia – Etna Nord at 580 meters above sea level. Parcel: VignaCalderara. Grape varieties: Nerello Mascalese 80%, Nerello Cappuccio 10%, Granache & Francisi 10%.
Number of screws approximately: 3,800
Land area: approximately 0.38 hectares
Density of vines per hectare: 10,000
Vine Age: Over a hundred years old, on its own rootstock, with part replanted in 2005
Vineyard cultivation: Albanello di Etna (Etna Bush Vine method) with Etna chestnut support.
Average yeild per hectare: 9,000kg
Average liters of wine produced per hectare: 6,000L
Average total number of 0.75 l bottles produced: 3,100
Harvest period: second ten days of October
Vinification: Pressing of the grapes, 30% of which with the stems. Maceration on the skins for at least 15 days in a 2500-liter wooden vat.
Yeasts: addition of native yeasts (Pied de cuve)
Duration of alcoholic fermentation: 10 days
Aging period: in 225 and 500 litre barrels for 12 months
Filtration: only during bottling
Clarification: natural decantation
Decanting during refinement number: 6
Addition of sulfur dioxide: in small doses before fermentation and bottling
Average alcohol content: 13.5%
Average total acidity grams per litre: 6.5
Average pH: 3.35
Total sulfur in freshly bottled wine (mg/l) average: 60
Bottling: in May of the second year following the harvest
First Year of Production: 2001
Vineyard is located 15 km from the central crater and 20 km from the Ionian Sea.
Average annual rainfall: 800 mm
Soils: The substratum is characterised by a lava slab of considerable areal extension, with outcrops of “Lavas and pyroclastics that are difficult to delimit with a degraded surface morphology” (Mongibello Antico-Mongibello Recente) (GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MOUNT ETNA, CNR 1979), where the pedogenic processes, favoured by the sub-flat morphology, have generated a
medium-deep soil rich in small and medium-sized volcanic stones that cover a large part of the terrain.
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I Vigneri 'Vinupetra' Etna Rosso Superiore DOC 2023
I Vigneri 'Vinupetra' Etna Rosso Superiore DOC 2023
Vinupetra : a Sicilian dialect word meaning "wine produced in stony soil." The vineyard is cultivated by hand using natural products. No biotechnology is used in the winemaking process. District: Porcaria in the municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia – Etna Nord at 580 meters above sea level. Parcel: VignaCalderara. Grape varieties: Nerello Mascalese 80%, Nerello Cappuccio 10%, Granache & Francisi 10%.
Number of screws approximately: 3,800
Land area: approximately 0.38 hectares
Density of vines per hectare: 10,000
Vine Age: Over a hundred years old, on its own rootstock, with part replanted in 2005
Vineyard cultivation: Albanello di Etna (Etna Bush Vine method) with Etna chestnut support.
Average yeild per hectare: 9,000kg
Average liters of wine produced per hectare: 6,000L
Average total number of 0.75 l bottles produced: 3,100
Harvest period: second ten days of October
Vinification: Pressing of the grapes, 30% of which with the stems. Maceration on the skins for at least 15 days in a 2500-liter wooden vat.
Yeasts: addition of native yeasts (Pied de cuve)
Duration of alcoholic fermentation: 10 days
Aging period: in 225 and 500 litre barrels for 12 months
Filtration: only during bottling
Clarification: natural decantation
Decanting during refinement number: 6
Addition of sulfur dioxide: in small doses before fermentation and bottling
Average alcohol content: 13.5%
Average total acidity grams per litre: 6.5
Average pH: 3.35
Total sulfur in freshly bottled wine (mg/l) average: 60
Bottling: in May of the second year following the harvest
First Year of Production: 2001
Vineyard is located 15 km from the central crater and 20 km from the Ionian Sea.
Average annual rainfall: 800 mm
Soils: The substratum is characterised by a lava slab of considerable areal extension, with outcrops of “Lavas and pyroclastics that are difficult to delimit with a degraded surface morphology” (Mongibello Antico-Mongibello Recente) (GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MOUNT ETNA, CNR 1979), where the pedogenic processes, favoured by the sub-flat morphology, have generated a
medium-deep soil rich in small and medium-sized volcanic stones that cover a large part of the terrain.
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Vinupetra : a Sicilian dialect word meaning "wine produced in stony soil." The vineyard is cultivated by hand using natural products. No biotechnology is used in the winemaking process. District: Porcaria in the municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia – Etna Nord at 580 meters above sea level. Parcel: VignaCalderara. Grape varieties: Nerello Mascalese 80%, Nerello Cappuccio 10%, Granache & Francisi 10%.
Number of screws approximately: 3,800
Land area: approximately 0.38 hectares
Density of vines per hectare: 10,000
Vine Age: Over a hundred years old, on its own rootstock, with part replanted in 2005
Vineyard cultivation: Albanello di Etna (Etna Bush Vine method) with Etna chestnut support.
Average yeild per hectare: 9,000kg
Average liters of wine produced per hectare: 6,000L
Average total number of 0.75 l bottles produced: 3,100
Harvest period: second ten days of October
Vinification: Pressing of the grapes, 30% of which with the stems. Maceration on the skins for at least 15 days in a 2500-liter wooden vat.
Yeasts: addition of native yeasts (Pied de cuve)
Duration of alcoholic fermentation: 10 days
Aging period: in 225 and 500 litre barrels for 12 months
Filtration: only during bottling
Clarification: natural decantation
Decanting during refinement number: 6
Addition of sulfur dioxide: in small doses before fermentation and bottling
Average alcohol content: 13.5%
Average total acidity grams per litre: 6.5
Average pH: 3.35
Total sulfur in freshly bottled wine (mg/l) average: 60
Bottling: in May of the second year following the harvest
First Year of Production: 2001
Vineyard is located 15 km from the central crater and 20 km from the Ionian Sea.
Average annual rainfall: 800 mm
Soils: The substratum is characterised by a lava slab of considerable areal extension, with outcrops of “Lavas and pyroclastics that are difficult to delimit with a degraded surface morphology” (Mongibello Antico-Mongibello Recente) (GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MOUNT ETNA, CNR 1979), where the pedogenic processes, favoured by the sub-flat morphology, have generated a
medium-deep soil rich in small and medium-sized volcanic stones that cover a large part of the terrain.
