Siccagno
2017
Region
Italy › Sicily › Sicilia DOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Nero d'Avola
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
2 g/L
Tasting Notes
Who would think Nero d'Avola can be so delicate and silky? In the right place with a pair of gentle hands, you get Siccagno (a concentrated fruit without irrigation) Nero d'Avola - light, quaffable and complex.
A fistful of black fruits, dried dark cherry, Dominican cigars, red flowers and a huge pot of bilberry and blackberry preparing to become a jam. Wonderful fruit quality, silky palate, a bit tannic (like biting not fully ripened dark plum). The aftertaste is long and flavourful. This is my wine of the evening because it's ready to be consumed and the evolution amazed me.
Great expression of delicate Nero d'Avola. Good study case. Hot spicy nose with black berries, pomegranate, cherry, blood, red flowers and earth. Medium-full body, good acidity, but tannin is not there yet, needs more time to develop. Beautiful and sophisticated. Good value.
About
Siccagno is 100% Nero d'Avola, born from those concentrated grapes called 'Siccagna' by locals (it literally means concentrated fruits without irrigation). The grapes come from a 3-ha vineyard on medium-density soils composed of red sands and chalk from sub-Apennine limestone rocks. The average age of vines is 35 years. Destemming, maceration on the skins and spontaneous fermentation in 85 hl concrete vats for 25 days with daily pumping over and punching down. Racking and ageing in 25 hl Slavonian oak barrels for 22 months.
