Kaffefi 2018 - Tanca Nica

Kaffefi - Tanca Nica

Kaffefi is a white wine that comes from pure Catarratto grapes. The name derives from the district where the vineyards are located, and means land rich in volcanic lapilli, tuff and pumice. Just the volcanic lapilli give the wine its marked sapidity. The grapes come from sapling raised with an average age of 50 years. The vinification takes place in steel with the use of indigenous yeasts, which are naturally found on the skins. Bottling and racking by fall. Bottles produced: 500, without added sulfites. The Kaffefi is a wonderful interpretation of Catarratto that takes us to the fantastic island of Pantelleria with its golden color and its fruity aromas, characterized by floral notes with aromatic herbs and mineral puffs. On the palate it is exuberant and joyful, very fresh and with a typical and very pleasant salty finish. A wine definitely not to be missed !!!.

Service

We recommend to taste it at a temperature of 6/8 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but left in the cellar for a few years can give great emotions.

Pairing

Excellent wine that goes well with fish starters, pasta dishes, fish main courses, to try with grilled swordfish slices.

Winery: Tanca Nica

Suspended between Africa and Europe, immersed in a cobalt blue sea, beautiful and without frills, we find the island of Pantelleria, and here the Tanca Nica winery, the dream of Francesco Ferreri and his wife Nicoletta. Tanca in Pantesco dialect, means small hilly land cultivated and arranged in terraces, and it is precisely that in which the vines grow, while Nica is the name of the place where the thermal waters emerge from the seabed and mix with the great Mediterranean blue. Francesco, after graduating in winemaking in Conegliano, begins to travel the world to confront himself with different working methods, until he decides to return to Pantelleria. Here he began to cultivate a small vineyard of only 2 hectares with the techniques and ancient local traditions that his grandfather taught him. Among the rows we find the Zibibbo, also known Moscato d’Alessandria, then the Pignatello, which in Pantelleria is called Nivuro Nostrale, or "black of the place", and finally the Catarratto. All the vines are bred with the classic system of small Pantelleria saplings and do not see chemical additives, nor herbicides, nor insecticides, but only when green beans and wheat are planted in alternate rows to protect the vines from strong spring winds. In the cellar the grapes are de-stemmed by hand, with the aid of a net, and pressed with the feet, the fermentation is spontaneous with only indigenous yeasts without fining and filtration, and no type of additive is used, not even sulfur. Tanca Nica's wines are direct and straightforward, free and pure, and carry within them the sun of Pantelleria.