Aurantium is a wine made from white Moscato grapes, naturally dried on racks. This wine best expresses all the warmth and scents of Sicily.
Tasting notes
View: intense golden yellow with amber reflections
Smell: with pleasant aromatic notes of candied citrus fruits, yellow-fleshed fruit and sage
Taste: sweet but not cloying, thanks to a good acidity; with pleasant notes of candied orange, dried apricots and dates
Pairings: ideal pairing with Sicilian dry pastries and fruit tarts, it also goes perfectly with herbal or long-aged cheeses
Denomination: IGT Terre Sicilia
Grape variety: Moscato bianco passito
Certification: Organic – IT BIO 006 D67W
Annual production: 2,000 bottles
Production area: south-eastern Sicily, territory of the municipality of Rosolini (SR) Contrada Ritillini
Training system: Counter-espalier with Guyot pruning
Planting density: 5,000 vines per hectare, with yields of around 80 quintals/ha
Harvest: Manual harvesting of the grapes in the first ten days of August and drying on naturally ventilated racks
Vinification: vinification in white, with fermentation in temperature-controlled steel tanks
Refinement: maturation in small barrels for 5 months and refinement in bottle for 3 months
- Alcohol content: 12% vol
- Total acidity: 6.02 g/l
- Ph: 3.04
- First vintage: 2010
- Formats: 0.50 l bottle
