Eudes
Etna
The vineyards of Vini Eudes are located 750-770 meters on Etna’s eastern slopes: high above the strip of land that separates Sicily’s defining volcano from the Ionian Sea. Giovanni Messina and Laura Torrisi have young plantings of carricante and catarratto and one parcel of ungrafted nerello mascalese vines, planted 100 to 130 years ago. Monte Gorna’s black sand and pumice soils are rich in potassium and minerals, poor in organic matter, and highly porous—ideal conditions for long, slow, healthy vine growth. Giovanni and Laura are committed to organic farming, hand harvests, and clean, temperature-controlled fermentations in stainless steel.
Eudes 2019 Etna Bianco DOC
This 'entry' level example of Carricante is a younger one in the bottle, but ever mature in expression - sourced from vines planted at a little lower elevation on Monte Gorn than Eudes' other Carricante (think closer to 700m, as opposed to scratching 800m), but these lower-on-the-slope vines are more than double the age of Eudes' other bianco vines. This yields a wine with all the depth and transparency you can expect to find in the unique Monte Gorna terroir, in a package that is a bit more primary in fruit than its mineral dense cousins. All farmed organically, and vinified in stainless steel.
- 2019
- Carricante
- DOC
- Italy
- Sicily
- Etna Bianco DOC
- Organic under Bioagricert
- Volcanic, sand
- Stainless steel
- Stainless steel
- 2.4
- 750 ml
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