VINUPETRA – Etna Rosso DOC

In Sicilian dialect, Vinupetra means “wine produced in a land full of stones”. The cultivation of the vineyard is done by hand. using natural products. Biotechnologies are not used in winemaking. Contrada: Porcaria in the municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia – Northern Etna at 580 m a.s.l. Plot: VignaCalderara Varieties: Nerello Mascalese 80%, Nerello Cappuccio 10%, Granache, Francisi 10%

INFORMATION

Number of vines (approx..): 3,800

Area of plot in hectares (approx.): 0.38

Vine density per hectare: 10,000

Vineyard year: Over one hundred years old with a part replanted in 2005

Vineyard training: Alberello Etneo with chestnut posts

Kg of selected grapes produced on average per hectare: 9,000

Litres of wine produced on average per hectare: 6,000

Number of 0.75L bottles total produced on average: 3,100

Harvest: second half of October

Winemaking: Crushing of the grapes of which 30% with the stalks. Maceration on the skins for no less than 15 days in 2500L wooden casks

Yeast: autochtonous yeast in pied de cuve

Duration of alcoholic fermentation: 10 days

Duration of refinement: in casks/barrels, 225L and 500L for 12 months

Filtration: only during bottling

Clarification: natural settling

Racking: 6 times

Addition of sulphur dioxide: in small doses before fermentation and bottling

Average alcohol content: 13.5%

Average total acidity: 6.5 g/l

Average pH: 3.35

Total sulphur in the newly bottled wine on average: 60 mg/l

Bottling: in May of the second year following the harvest

First Production Year: 2001

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The Vineyard is as the crow flies:

15 Km from the Central Crater of Mt. Etna and Km 20 from the Ionian Sea.
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Average yearly rainfall: 800 mm

Soil: volcanic, characterized by a lava patch covering a large area. There are “outcrops” of Lava and pyroclasticis with degraded surface morphology” (Mongibello Antico-Mongibello Recente) (Geological Map of Mt. Etna, CNR 1979), where paedogenetic processes, favoured by low and flat morphology, have generated an average deep soil rich in small and medium-sized volcanic stones that cover most of the land.