Red Wine
Litra
Biodynamic Demeter 2016
Almost consistent, impenetrable ruby red colour.
Its great personality is expressed in an olfactory tale that never ceases to amaze us with every taste: green pepper, cardamom, anise, vanilla, cinnamon, thyme, coffee, dark chocolate, juniper. Powerful, austere, elegant and refined taste.
Exciting with meat-based second courses from game to red meat, aged and semi-aged cheeses. Unique in a meditative finish with 70% dark chocolate.
Features &
Pairings
A seductive and very classy wine. Mediterranean, sunny and powerful.
Colour: dark ruby red, almost impenetrable which makes the color almost consistent.
Nose: elegant, powerful, austere, it is told with various aromas of green pepper and then balsamic with hints of thyme, juniper, mallow to continue between a harmony of vanilla, coffee, white chocolate, cocoa, licorice and an unexpected floral complicity of violet and dog rose.
Taste: wine of great personality, powerful, austere, long. It is plump, dense with fruit and elegant with dense and refined perfectly smooth tannins, its structure set with a territorial freshness makes it almost timeless. Harmonious with notes of jam, crunchy pepper, persuasive cocoa, vanilla, nutmeg… with an almost infinite persistence.
Serving temperature 18°/20 ° C.
Pairing: red meat, game, aged cheeses. Unique in a meditative finish with 70% bitter chocolat.
Data sheet
Litra Biodynamic Demeter
- Classification: DOC Sicilia Red
- Certification: Organic – Biodynamic Demeter
- Grape variety: 100%, Cabernet Sauvignon
- Vineyards location: Castelbuono (PA) - C.da Santa Anastasia, Bennarda Hill 350 m. s.l.m.
- N. plants per hectare: 4.000
- Yield per hectare:3.000 kg
- Harvest: Manual harvesting: second decade of September
- Production technique: Traditional red vinification in concrete and wooden vats. Spontaneous fermentation with autochthonous yeasts with controlled temperature (max 25 ° C) for 20 days, long maceration on the skins for up to 30 days.
- Aging: For 2 months in concrete tanks, for 24 months in new French Allier oak barriques and tonneaux, 12 months in bottle.
- Alc.% Vol.: 14
