If you are hosting a wine tasting party, your guests will enjoy the wine more when to offer a little background on the winery. How to pour wine, share stories of the wineries can lead to a distinctive taste, as your guests can also use an image created in the wine. This article examines the wine region of Sicily and the Mountain Vineyards, including Valle dell'Acate and Azienda Agricola Graci, the maker of the perfect wine to complement each> Wine Tasting Party.
Sicily
Some say that Sicilians have less Italian blood in their veins than Phoenician, Green, Arabic, Norman, Spanish or French, because his position at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, to leave their beautiful with many different cultures in this largest island in the Mediterranean track. The Greek cities in Sicily in the 6th and 5 Century BC, lived and whose ruins are some of the most impressive outside of Greece,especially the Valley of the Temples near Agrigento. Nature also has its benefits in Sicilia, its magnificent beaches, remote mountain villages and plains, mountain ranges and spectacular Mount Etna, one of three active volcanoes make the land extremely fertile.
The vineyards of Sicily
The island of Sicily is home to vineyards than any other region. The western province of Trapani alone produces more wine than the entire regions of Tuscany orPiemonte, although much of this wine growers ship north for use as a mixture of wine, or for distillation into industrial alcohol. Marsala makes the most of the wines produced here, along with many dry white and red wines of Etna vineyards whose grapes on draping the lower slopes of the volcano shows remarkable class. Italian Wine clubs often function in addition to Marsala Sicily Nero d'Avola, Perricone and Nerello Mascalese.
Valledell'Acate
Jacono Ricca and del'Anguilla Ferreri, both from old wine-making families in Eastern Sicily, began the winery in Valle dell'Acate Bidini Estate in the province of Ragusa in 1981. Grows on the more than 100 hectares of grapes, Valle dell'Acate the indigenous Nero d'Avola, Insolia Frappato and, together with the international varieties Chardonnay and Syrah. The large property is located between the cities Acate and Vittoria on steep hillsides above Dirillo River. The producer of wines called "innocent" of Italian wine clubs and wine guide Gambero Rosso, the jewel of the property is Nero d'Avola, Sicily noble red grapes blended with aromatic Frappato in the Cerasuolo di Vittoria wine and Syrah in the Tane.
Azienda Agricola Graci
Tasting of wines from this small winery, which produces only 1,000 cases, a privilege of a few, probably more foreigners and members of the joint Italian> Wine Club as a native Sicilian. In 2004, Alberto Aiello Graci founded the winery on Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, the feet 3.329 meters above sea level (10.922), his fiery halo is located visible from great distances. Graci The property is located on the northern slope of the mountain in Passopisciaro, where wine goes back thousands of years. Alberto Graci farms three vineyards at different altitudes.
With many of the winery's vines planted over 100 yearsOn its own roots instead of root-stock, Azienda Agricola Graci holdings without foreign material whatsoever, not even what they are authorized by the organic farming rules. These exceptional wines are intimidated all pure extraction of this mountain and its volcanic force, the elderly and modern witnesses alike.
Whether you are buying a loyal Italian wine clubs that regularly feature these wines or are just a bottle from your local wine shop, you are sureEnjoy the wines of Sicily, a little bit more now know that some of the fascinating history of the vineyards.
