Eughenos Rosato Terre Aquilane 2019 - Di Cato

Eughenos Raggio di Luna - Di Cato

Eughenos Raggio di Luna from Azienda Di Cato is a rosé wine that comes from Montepulciano grapes vinified with a brief maceration on the skins. Manual harvest, and in the cellar the bunches are de-stemmed and left to macerate for one night in a steel tank. In the morning the must is separated from the skins. Natural fermentation thanks to indigenous yeasts only. At the end of fermentation, a first racking is carried out to eliminate the coarser parts. In the following 4 months of rest in steel it settles naturally by sedimentation between one transfer and another. It is not stabilized, clarified or filtered, and is bottled with the full moon in February. It is a wine with a versatile, fascinating character, with a characteristic cherry red color, delicately vinous, fresh and fruity. Wild rose, licorice, mountain herbs.

Service

We taste it at a temperature of around 8/10 ° C in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately, but left a few years in the cellar it can give great emotions.

Pairings

Wine suitable with first courses with vegetables, fish dishes, fresh cheeses, to try with a salmon tartare.

Cellar: Di Cato

The Di Cato farm is located on the hills of Vittorito, a small village in the Abruzzo hinterland known since ancient times for the production of wine, between the parks of Majella, Morrone and Sirente. Montepulciano d’Abruzzo was born here. It is a land of large temperature ranges, of clayey and calcareous soils that alternate with black and stony soils, with an average altitude of 400 meters. s.l.m. In 2005 Di Cato Francesco, with the support of his daughter Mariapaola. he decides to transform the love for the land and the passion for the cultivation of the vine, transmitted to him since his childhood by Grandfather Mariano. He begins to recover all the vineyards inherited from his relatives, replant them in part and start them to biological conversion, because he firmly believes that it is the quality of the grapes that makes the quality of the wine: those who transform cannot do better than mother nature. One hectare of vineyard from which you get a Montepulciano and a Cerasuolo which is joined by a Malvasia. In the vineyard and in the cellar there is the minimum intervention. Excluding the use of pesticides or herbicides, we work with grass-cutter and hoe while for the fertilizing of legumes of different species. The treatments include copper and sulfur only if necessary in relation to climatic situations. The wines that derive from it are essential, genuine and natural.