2022 Cantina Gulfi Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, Sicily, Italy

2022 Cantina Gulfi Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, Sicily, Italy

Original price was: $27.95.Current price is: $25.95.

Description

“The cherries of Vittoria (village)”.  The organic Cantina Gulfi 2022 Cerasuolo di Vittoria is deftly balanced with 70% Nero d’ Avola and 30% Frappato as the DOCG requires.  

Since 1996, Vito Catania produces wine from the grapes grown on family’s estate, which is located in the commune of Chiaramonte Gulfi in the province of Ragusa.

Driven by an innate passion for wine, Vito Catania begun a historical and viticulture research, in collaboration with Salvo Foti, to select the soils most suited for wine-growing in southern Sicily . The results of this research led the Gulfi estate to purchase more than 100 hectares of land planted with vines .

An easy drinking red especially during the summer or fall months with a slight chill.  Cerasuolo di Vittoria is an ample, but simple red wine with deep aromas of bright dark cherries and ripe berries and spicy floral violets and rose petals.  This wine is a great example of how young wines can be excellent when they are terroir-driven.  Refreshing and quenching with juicy raspberry and redolent ripe cherries with an underlying slight “dusty” minerality on the palate.  Very versatile, Gulfi’s Cerasuolo di Vittoria works with so many food preparations…..from simple tomato sauced pastas and pizza, to grilled fin fish.  Try with a roast chicken, or grilled or braised pork and veal. 

The center of the estate is located in Val Canzeria, below the town of Chiaramonte Gulfi, about 500 meters above sea level, in the area of the Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG wine. Here, as well as centennial olive groves, one finds the Nero d’Avola, which has since always been cultivated in the Iblean hills, and the Frappato together with local varieties of white grapes ( Albanello, Carricante, Moscatello ).