Catarratto 2022 - Nino Barraco

Catarratto - Nino Barraco

Obtained from Catarratto grapes coming from a 2 hectare vineyard with an average age of 35 years. The harvest takes place in early September. After fermentation in the cellar, the fermentation is spontaneous in steel tanks with maceration on the skins for 3-4 days. From September to May it is refined in the same tanks. The Catarratto is a very tasty, straw-yellow wine. The delicate nose with sweet spices, yellow fruit, citrus fruits, smoky smoked and very elegant sulfur. In the mouth it is enveloping, fresh and long persistent.

Service

It is advisable to serve it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in tulip goblets. Wine to drink at once but with a wonderful evolution over the years.

Pairing

Great to match with first-course fish dishes, white meats with sweet spices, to try with a fish cous cous.

Cellar: Nino Barraco

Nino Barraco is located in the north-west of Sicily, in Marsala. Nino is a true craftsman of wine, his idea starts from the assumption that his wines must speak of the territory, the climate, the hand of the man who produces it, be recognizable for his personality and to reach those goals we must avoid standardization , Technical interventions and rely only on the variability of nature. Nino personally cares for every stage of processing in the vineyard and in the cellar, continuous research and experimentation led to the abandonment of the classic sapling plant in use in Marsala to adopt the Guyot system, the abolition of chemistry among vineyards but only the weighted copper use And sulfur, free fermentations with spontaneous yeasts, 4 days long macerations for white wines and 12 for reds, total absence of sulfur dioxide during all cellar operations, refinement of wines in steel tanks and no filtration, clarification or stabilization Before bottling. All Nino wines are produced with pure Sicilian grape varieties; Grillo, Catarratto, Zibibbo, Black Avola and Perricone. Wonderful, sincere wines, pure expression of the vine, the land and the vintage.