PIETRO CACIORGNA CIAURA - Etna Rosso 2017
The Farm Caciorgna Pietro is located in the town of Casole d'Elsa, in the province of Siena in the heart of Tuscany. Today the Caciorgna family has a total area of 20 hectares, where they grow cereals, corn, sunflower, fodder for a small breeding of Chianina cattle, and obviously the produces of wine, which started only for family use and some sold to other families. The philosophy of the Caciorgna family is to produce quality while respecting the environment and health of the consumer, so no chemical fertilizers are used, and to prevent vine diseases, only traditional products such as copper and sulfur are used.
In 2006, a friend of Paolo Caciorgna, Marco de Grazia invited him to his farm on Mount Etna, Tenuta delle Terre Nere, where he produces an excellent wine from Nerello grapes, on the north side of the volcano. With Marco, they visited many vineyards for sale and he encouraged Paolo to buy one, until they found a small jewel, half a hectare of Nerello, raised in alberello at the threshold of one hundred years. It is located in the Contrada Marchesa, in Passo Cannone, near Passopisciaro (Castiglione di Sicilia). Shortly after, he purchased another vineyard located in the Contrada called "Bocca d'Orzo or Piano d'Aria".
In 2009 Paolo Caciorgna started to produce a simpler Etna Rosso, an everyday wine, which brings us back to the perfumes and flavors of Nerello Mascalese that grows on the slopes of Etna. The alcoholic fermentation and malolactic fermentation were both carried out in stainless steel tanks then aged for 6 months in French barriques.
