#Sicily wine maps full
They are all full bodied wines with a lot of taste. The Nerello grape is used for red and rosé and Carricante and Catarratto is being used for the white wine. This brings DOC white, red and rosé on the market. DOC Etna, on the slopes of Mount Etna besides vines also citrus plants.It is a ruby red wine and the smell is intense and continues to hang around for long. DOC Faro, the vineyards surround the city of Messina and the wine is made from no less than six varieties, of which Nerello is the main grape.DOC Cerasuolo di Vittoria, is one of the most famous red wines from Sicily and made of the Frappato and Calabrese grape.The difference between the Moscato and the Passito is, in the Moscato they use very ripe grapes where they use almost dried grapes in the Passito. The winemakers also make a very rich passito. In comparison to other spumantes this wine has an intense flavor and aroma. There is also a sweet spumante made from the Moscato di Noto. After a short maturation period you will get a ‘golden’ wine with a high alcohol percentage of 16.5%. They are both made from the Moscato Bianco grape. DOC Moscato di Siracusa and DOC Moscato di Noto are around the city Siracusa.All wines have an alcohol percentage of 18%. For example, with eggs (all'uovo), with coffee (all'caff), with almonds (alla mandorla) and strawberries (alla fragola). The Speciale is a separate Marsala wine with the most crazy additions allowed. After a year of maturation the Fine wine is ready for the market, after two years of maturation it will be a Superiore and after four years a Superiore Riserva.ģ. If the wine contents 17% alcohol it is enough, the he adds some vini cotto (grape syrup). To get the Marsala Fine or Superiore, the winegrower adds extra alcohol or passito wine to the basic wine. The wine is then stored in the so-called solera for another ten years to mature.Ģ. The wine gets extra alcohol and has 18% of alcohol in the end. The wine is aged for five years in Slavonian oak. The Virgina is the best, most expensive and rather dry Marsala. There are three types of Marsala: Vergina, Fine and Speciale.ġ. There is also a red Marsale called Rubino. The Marsala is also one of the ingredients of a special dessert Sabollon (with beaten egg). They are therefore known as oro or ambra. Marsala DOC, a white, golden amber-colored wine made from the Cataratto and Grillo grape.The main red grapes: Monica (also called Sadinie) Calabrese, Frappato. The main white grapes: Malvasia, Moscato, Cataratto and Grillo. Sicily produces mainly bulk wines, with only 2% (19 units) as a DOC wine. Due to a shortage of water the grapes generally have much less sugar and acids. Many vineyards should therefore be irrigated. The active volcano Mount Etna is important for the wine, yet also vulnerable because an eruption is sometimes an end to years of work. Sicily has the largest vineyards of Italy.
They are well balanced and good to keep for a longer period and generally have more sugar and less acidity. The wines of these islands are being called vini Mediterranei. Sicily is one of the bigger islands of Italy, the other is Sardinia.
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