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Nero D'Avola

This red wine, today, can be considered the Prince of Sicilian  varieties. Its cultivation covers an area of 12.000 hectares making it the most spread vine in Sicily. It is greatly appreciated all over the world for being red-berry vine which yields excellent full-bodied wines.

Nero d’Avola is mainly trained into low bushes or vertical trellis and yields grapes with high sugar content making the wine reach 15 % alc./vol.

Thanks to some recent changes in its growing, the sugar content has reduced and the acidity has raised. It is one of the greatest Italian wines when it is vinified separately: it is firmly structured, intense, balanced, warm, suitable for barrel aging.

Nero d’Avola colour is an intense ruby-red, intense, bright, with purplish hues when young, and dark red hues when old. Its taste is complex, with hints of violet and spices (liquorice and cloves), prune, cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, raspberry and chocolate, leather and tobacco, and many others.

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