Massive Sale: 40% OFF 2016 Graci Etna Rosso + New Single Vineyard Releases
As most of you know, we here at Some Good Wine love us some Sicily. When I first got into this business, the wines were seldom and boring. With so much wine at a massive rate, they just couldn't get their feet off the ground.
Today, Sicily is a world class area with tons of great stuff, new and interesting, coming in every year. One of these is today's producer: Graci! Slowly making way to be one of the biggest stars here, he has real estate up and down with tons of higher end and single vineyard sites.
Today we have a great deal on his introductory Etna Rosso followed by some new single vineyard offerings. The 2016 Etna Rosso has all he fleshy red fruits we come to know and love for Nerello Mascalese based wines. Smoky and mineral driven with a solid core of white pepper, citrus and sage notes. Light and fleshy on the palate with streaking red fruits that hit and bang with all the good smokey essence. Further, this will age for another 7 years.
2016 Graci Etna Rosso
Original Price: $32.99
Sale Price: $24.99
3 Bottles: $22.99
6 or More: $19.99
Today, Sicily is a world class area with tons of great stuff, new and interesting, coming in every year. One of these is today's producer: Graci! Slowly making way to be one of the biggest stars here, he has real estate up and down with tons of higher end and single vineyard sites.
Today we have a great deal on his introductory Etna Rosso followed by some new single vineyard offerings. The 2016 Etna Rosso has all he fleshy red fruits we come to know and love for Nerello Mascalese based wines. Smoky and mineral driven with a solid core of white pepper, citrus and sage notes. Light and fleshy on the palate with streaking red fruits that hit and bang with all the good smokey essence. Further, this will age for another 7 years.
2016 Graci Etna Rosso
Original Price: $32.99
Sale Price: $24.99
3 Bottles: $22.99
6 or More: $19.99
Other Wines from Graci
- 10% off 6, 15% off 12
- Wines Arrive End of April
2016 ETNA BIANCO, DOC ARCURÌA: $54.99
Grapes: 100% Carricante, from Contrada Arcurìa
Grapes: 100% Carricante, from Contrada Arcurìa
- Harvest: mid-October
- Vinification: partitally in concrete tank and partially in a large oak barrel.
- Aging: in total 24 months - 12 months on lees and 12 months in bottle
- Contrada ARCURÌA: 20 hectares of vineyards with five different types of volcanic soils. Between 600 and 700 meters above sea level, in Passopisciaro, on the northern side of the volcano. A natural amphitheater exposed to cold and dry winds that blow from the north. This is an ideal place to grow grapes, able to offer perfect ripening in good vintages and to keep tension and acceleration in warm vintages. 15 hectares of Nerello Mascalese, 4 hectares of Carricante, 1 hectare of Catarratto cultivated with the espalier with a planting height of 2 meters for 0.80 meters with more than 6.000 plants per hectare; a part is planted with a sapling, ungrafted plants, with a density of 10,000 vines per hectare. The age of the vines varies between 15 and 70 years.
2015 Etna Rosso Feudo Di Mezzo: $57.99
- Grapes: 95% Nerello Mascalese 5% Nerello Cappuccio, from Contrada Feudo di Mezzo
- Harvest: first half of October
- Vinification: tradizional red vinification in large oak tini without temperature control. Maceration on skins for approximately 30 days.
- Aging: 18 months in large oak tini with spontaneous development of malolactic fermentation and aging for at least 6 months in bottles.
- Contrada Feudo di Mezzo: 1.5 hectares of 80-year-old vineyards on the northern side of Etna, 600 meters above sea level. Planted with Nerello Mascalese and a small part with Nerello Cappuccio, cultivated as an “alberello.” Surrounded by olive and almond trees. Very sandy soil, fine texture. This is a place where each grape matures luxuriously. It is the first vineyard to be harvested every year and gives us a wide and generous wine.
2016 ETNA ROSSO, DOC ARCURÌA: $57.99
- Grapes: 100% Nerello Mascalese from Contrada Arcurìa
- Harvest: last week of October
- Vinification: traditional red vinification in large oak tini without temperature control. Long maceration on skins.
- Aging: 18 months in large oak tini with spontaneous development of malolactic fermentation and aging for at least 6 months in bottles.
- Contrada ARCURÌA: 20 hectares of vineyards with five different types of volcanic soils. Between 600 and 700 meters above sea level, in Passopisciaro, on the northern side of the volcano. A natural amphitheater exposed to cold and dry winds that blow from the north. This is an ideal place to grow grapes, able to offer perfect ripening in good vintages and to keep tension and acceleration in warm vintages. 15 hectares of Nerello Mascalese, 4 hectares of Carricante, 1 hectare of Catarratto cultivated with the espalier with a planting height of 2 meters for 0.80 meters with more than 6.000 plants per hectare; a part is planted with a sapling, ungrafted plants, with a density of 10,000 vines per hectare. The age of the vines varies between 15 and 70 years.
2014 QUOTA 1000 BARBABECCHI IGT TERRE SICILIANE: $179.99
- Grapes: 100% Nerello Mascalese from Contrada Barbabecchi
- Harvest: first week of November
- Vinification: tradizional red vinification in large oak barrels without temperature control. Maceration on skins for 30 days about.
- Aging: 24 months in large oak barrels with spontaneous development of malolactic fermentation and aging for at least 12 months in bottle.
- Contrada BARBABECCHI: Alberello-trained vineyard of 2 hectares at 1,000 meters above sea level. Barbabecchi is located in Solicchiata, on the north side of Mount Etna, planted with ungrafted Nerello Mascalese about 100-years old on terraces and dry stone walls between apple trees, chestnut trees, balsamic herbs, hazelnuts, and olive trees. Barbabecchi is a place of paradox, with a northern climate and African sun. At this altitude, grapes are harvested in November. From this vineyard comes a wine that combines depth and austerity, bottled only in great expression vintages.