Faro 2020 - Bonavita

Faro - Bonavita

The Faro by Bonavita is a red wine made from a blend of Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Nocera grapes. The grapes come from 60-year-old vines planted on soils rich in clay and tuff. Spontaneous vinification with only indigenous yeasts and aging in 30 Hl oak conical trunk vats for at least 16 and six months in the bottle. Ruby red color with garnet hues, The nose wraps with austere, fruity and other more Mediterranean tones of thyme and mulberry. Elegant with dense and homogeneous tannins.

Service

It is advisable to serve the light at a temperature of 16/18 ° in balloon goblets. Wine that we recommend tasting in a few years when it reaches its maximum expression.

Pairing

The Bonavita Rosso accompanies the first dishes of ragout, second courses of meat, the roast sheep of the Messinese tradition, to try with a plate of tripe with the sauce.

The cellar: Bonavita

Giovanni Scarfone, lever 1980, is one of the five producers of Faro, a denomination that lies on the hills of Messina, overlooking the Straits of Messina, where they meet the Mar Ionian and the Tyrrhenian Sea. John owns 7 hectares for vineyards, olive groves and woods. The hectares of vines are around 2.5 and they are on steep terraces at an altitude of between 250 and 300 m. S.l.m. Surrounded by a forest of oaks and chestnut trees, to form a natural amphitheater. Vineyards cultivated with native seeds, Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Nocera, with a deim vine age ranging from 10 to 80 years old. John does only natural agriculture to respect fauna and flora; The use of chemical fertilizers, no use of herbicides and insecticides, but only the use of copper and sulfur. Same care also in the cellar without additives of chemical additives, long macerations and long refinements. This is the thought of John's productive philosophy; Time will give the wines the right expression of the territory and our being vintners.