Nero d´Avola, Sicily, DOC, Feudo Disisa Winery, 13.5% 0.75 l

Product detailed description

Intense ruby ​​red color with violet highlights, the aroma is fruity with notes of cherry and red fruit. The taste is fresh, harmonious. The selected grapes are fermented at a controlled temperature of 25-27°C, followed by maceration for 15 days and then matured in stainless steel. 30% matures in a barrel and 70% matures in a stainless steel tank. The wine is aged in the bottle for 120 days. The vineyards are located at an altitude of 480 m.a.s.l. near the city of Monreale. We recommend serving with meaty dishes, with roasts, with strong sauces, with fattier dishes. Nero d´Avola is red  the most representative variety grown in Sicily, about which we do not have accurate historical  mentions. A large red wine intended especially for archiving, cherry-red color with a complex aroma, with notes of red fruit, spices, salt and balsamic notes. The taste is very full-bodied, warm, dry, with fine tannins.

Why do we like it?

It goes well with more complex dishes, so you will best appreciate the quality of this wine. 

Manufacturer

The Di Lorenzo family, of English origin, arrived in Sicily under King Roger's regiment when Silvestre Di Lorenzo, Viscount of Antony in the Duchy of Nottuberland, settled in the Val di Noto territory. At the end of the 16th century, part of the family moved to Gibellina. Two centuries later, in 1803, Nicola Di Lorenzo was awarded the title of Marquis of Castelluccio, based on a concession by King Ferdinand IV. In 1867, a few years after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, the archpriest Santi Di Lorenzo, a great lover of agriculture, bought the former Feudo Disisa and bequeathed it to his nephew Nicolò Di Lorenzo, former mayor of Ghibellina and deputy of the Kingdom of Italy for two terms from 1904 to 1909. The venerable Nicolò Di Lorenzo married Anna Emanuele di Villabianca, the niece of a famous scholar of Sicilian history and culture, which was described in great detail in his numerous works.

In the 1930s, his son Mario Di Lorenzo,  after graduating in agriculture from the University of Portica, began to devote himself full-time to the family farm and expanded the cultivation of vines and olive trees. He immediately decided to plant 150 hectares of vineyards and 70 hectares of olive groves and began the construction of the first cellar intended for the production of blended wine. The new structure was completed in 1935, when the first harvest saw the light of day for the sale of cask wine intended for the markets of northern Italy and France. The society thus records its first fundamental transformation, which radically changes the face of the surroundings, both from an agricultural and an economic-social point of view. In 1980, the old winery was closed and the family began supplying grapes to cooperative wineries in the area.