Malvasia Eughenos Raggio di Sole 2022 - Di Cato

Malvasia Eughenos Raggio di Sole - Di Cato

Eughenos Raggio di Sole from Azienda Di Cato is a white wine that comes from pure Malvasia grapes that come from a small 67-year-old vineyard entirely grafted on site on land. The grapes were harvested and de-stemmed totally by hand, and in the cellar the fermentation takes place with a brief maceration on the skins in open vats for 7 days with uncontrolled temperatures and without adding selected yeasts. After a first racking to eliminate the coarser parts, the wine ages in steel for at least 5 months. It has not been stabilized, clarified or filtered, it has been bottled with the new moon in March to coincide with the solstice. It is a wine with notes of aromatic herbs, wild flowers, honey, licorice root, fine, pleasant on the palate, it is dry and fruity with a slight almond aftertaste.

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.