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Katamacerato, 2020

by: Elios

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Sicily - Italy

Wine

Orange

Catarratto

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Sulphites

25 mg/L

Grape Certification

Organic

Suitable for

Vegans

vegetarians

From the Grower

"At the taste has an excellent freshness and drinkability, with hints of spices and mature fruit, orange peel and citrus scents."

Technical Information

Vineyard

Organic (certified)
Grape Percentage: 100%
Average age of vines: 18
Soil type: Calcareous, Clay, Limestone

Cellar

Fermented spontaneously using low-intervention
Sulphites: Low sulphites: 25 mg/L
Fining (clarification): Unfined
Filtering: Unfiltered
Suitable for Vegans and vegetarians
Alcohol: 11.5%
Residual sugar: <1 g/L
Length of skin contact: 7 days
Vessel type: Stainless Steel
Bottle weight: 600

Additional Information

After 5 years of winemaking we finally came up with our expression of Catarratto grapes. Catarratto vines are the most cultivated in our Alcamo territory; Catarratto is, more than other grapes, the symbol of our town.

In the last 20 years we assisted to the ANNIHILATION of these grapes. Big wineries started to vinify it (for market) taking eveything away: thus no skin contact, pastorizing, massively filtering, obtaining a white paper colour idro-alcoholic drink, not a wine.

We decided to make a "cut with the past" (represented on the label by a Katana that cuts the grapes in two halves), doing the opposite to the big wineries.

Catarratto is a great grapes when you leave everything it has, and, as you know, the secret and power is in the skins!

The wine is thus of a deep orange color and with a very long aging potential. It is a dense and structured wine without neglecting elegance, rustic tannin reminiscent of the most authentic countryside.

At the taste has an excellent freshness and drinkability, with hints of spices and mature fruit. Perfect in combination with seasoned cheeses (e.g. caciocavallo) or very tasty and typical dishes of Mediterranean cuisine (pasta with sardines and fennel, anchovies etc.). It's a wine that farmers in the past used for themselves in packed lunches during work in the countryside, often combined with pecorino aged cheese or salted sardines.

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About Elios

We are Guido and Nicola, two sicilian friends deeply in love with theri native region. We strongly believe in authentic products, capable of transmitting vibrant emotions, which are the result of love for nature, respect for raw materials and human craftsmanship. In 2015 we left our jobs as consultants to give life to a project of our own: to change the fate of the grapes of our farms, which up to then had been sold on the cheap to industry, and to accord them the dignity they deserve, producing low intervention wines expression of our “terroir”. THE NATURAL WINE PROJECT The idea of producing a natural wine comes from the deep respect we have for nature. Man must, from our point of view, accompany the winemaking process without invasive intervention and the use of synthetic chemicals. Wine should not be a product to be tailored to the taste of consumers, but an expression of nature and of the area from which the grapes come from. For the production of our wines we do not use any chemicals, but simply grape juice and a minimum quantity of sulphites. MODUS BIBENDI wants to comunicate our respect for Nature and the awareness that wine should be a genuine product. The choice is clear, the result is a different way/style (MODUS) to drink (BIBENDI) the wine (”MODUS BIBENDI” are latin words). The winemaking process is done in the cellar of one of our friends in Gibellina (TP), where we bring the grapes of our production. We chose to vinify only Sicilian native grapes. We started in 2015, producing wine with Grillo and Nero d’Avola, sicilian autoctones.

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