Italy | Sicily | Valdibella | Catarrato Munir

VARIETAL
100% Catarrato

NOTES
FARMING: Certified Organic

VINEYARD: Camporeale - planted to hillside sites in bush vine training systems. Soils aremixed calcareous and clay. The name Munir is an Arabic word (usually given as a boy's name, and means "shining" or "luminous".

VINIFICATION: The grapes are harvested by hand and transported to the cellar in small baskets, where they are de-stemmed and crushed. Subsequently the decanted must is racked and added with natural fermentation must (prepared in the previous days with grapes from the same vineyard). Fermentation lasts about 20 days at a temperature of 15° C. Subsequently, the wine is aged for the winter and the following spring in steel for 6 months before bottling.