La Famiglia | Sicily
2006
A very special Italian wine from the foothills of Mount Etna in Sicily, made by legendary winemaker Peter Vinding-Diers especially for us from Nero d'Avola, the Sicilian red grape. This is delicious and a very fine wine—beautifully made by a 'Master' who brought Château Rahoul in Bordeaux to prominence—and did the same for Royal Tokay after the collapse of communism in Hungary.
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The Press
'This is a spicy, savoury wine from the foothills of Mount Etna...Brimming with cherry, cassis, clove and mineral notes it is concentrated stuff with a good, long finish. 18/20'—Mike Tipping, Yorkshire Evening Press
Our tasting notes
Dark, ruby purple colour with a nose of ripe cherries and burnt fruit. A wonderful mouthful of soft mellow supple concentrated fruit—almost stewed fruit—good minerality and a long finish. A very well made wine!Wine data
Grape variety: Nero d’AvolaAppellation: IGT Sicilia
Alcohol: 13.5%
About Sicilian wine
Sicily is lucky enough to be blessed with consistent growing seasons from year to year which are characterised by lots of warm sunshine and very little rain. It is not surprising then that as far back as 1,500 BC, grapes were being cultivated by Mycenaean traders in the Aeolian Islands. For many years afterwards, Sicilian wine had come to mean Marsala and it is only in recent years that its other wines have started to receive the recognition they deserve. In the 2007 edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson write that Sicily "could now claim to be Italy's most vital and improved wine region." At the heart of this renaissance is the Nero d'Avola, a grape indigenous to Sicily that was initially confined to the southern wine-growing village of Avola. Often compared to Syrah, Nero d'Avola is a tricky grape to grow but one that thrives in the heat and produces rich, perfumed wines that are incredibly drinkable and can improve with ageing.
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