Italy, Sicily
Nero d'Avola
Description
Santa Cecilia is our highlight from the most important Sicilian grape variety, Nero d’Avola. Our long research into finding the best place to produce a great wine from this grape brought us to Noto, where the DOC Noto insists that the variety originates, at the southern extremity of Sicily. With its white soils and its ancient vines this is the epicentre of cultivation for Nero d’Avola. Santa Cecilia is an expression of elegance, power, balance and eminence of the unique aromas of Sicily, and today is the reference point for red wines produced from indigenous Sicilian grapes. Its name derives from that of our family: Planeta di Santa Cecilia.
Awards
3 bicchieri Gambero Rosso
94 pts The Wine Advocate Points
Certificates
Alcohol
14.0%
Analytical data
dry
Vinification
destalking followed by 21 days remaining on the skins; after racking malolactic fermentation in stainless steel, maturation for 14 months in barriques
Vineyard
Buonivini (selected from vineyards Zuppardo and Agliastro). VARIETY: Nero d’Avola. TYPE OF SOIL: Very limey soil, abundance of small stones; fine texture with pale coloured sections of chalk
Maturation
Allier oak barriques used 2 or 3 times
