Cirò Bianco 2021 - Cataldo Calabretta

Cirò Bianco - Cataldo Calabretta

Made from grapes of Greek from clay-limestone soils. The grapes are harvested by hand in mid-September and fermentation is spontaneous with only indigenous yeasts. Refining in steel for 6 months with battonage on the lees. Color bright straw yellow with aromas of white flowers and yellow fruit, minerality in the mouth stands out, the flavor and persistence.

Service

It serves the Cirò Bianco at a temperature of 8/10 ° in large glasses. To be drunk immediately, but in a few years can give great satisfaction.

Pairing

The Cirò Bianco is a wine for every meal that goes well with rich fish appetizers, pasta dishes with sauces with fish, try the linguine with crab.

The winery: Cataldo Calabretta

Cataldo is the fourth generation of a family of winemakers. After a degree in Enology and Viticulture at the Faculty of Agriculture of Milan he has worked in various wineries. Seven years ago, together with her sisters, she decided to renovate the old family cellar and add a new page to our history. For over 10 years the company is run according to the dictates of organic farming, an ethical choice, which from year to year is bearing fruit: has renewed the vineyards, continuing to cultivate the vine Gaglioppo on hilly land located in the heart of "DOC Cyrus'". Do not use selected yeasts or activators of fermentation of any kind; seeking to minimize the use of sulfur dioxide, static cold tartaric stabilization and filtration before bottling. In the winery he has recovered the old concrete tanks, among the most suitable for the refining and the Cirò wine maturation. To complete the range of wines produced by Cataldo: Rosato produced with Gaglioppo, Cirò Bianco based Greek Bianco, Rosato from Alicante grapes, White Wine made from grapes Ansonica to close with a delicious wine Passito of Malvasia grapes .