2017 Vini Scirto "Don Pippinu" Carricante, Sicily, ItalyABOUT THIS WINE Don Pippinu bianco, so named after Giuseppes grandfather, comes from a collection of vineyards growing at 600 1000 meters above sea level on deep volcanic soils, lending more structure and ageability to the wine. These sites are composed of old vines averaging 60 years in age, and among these are several white varieties. While carricante always makes up the vast majority of the Don Pippinu bianco, small percentages of minnella bianca,

Organically farmed at two dry-farmed North Coast vineyards: Rosewood

000-year winemaking tradition and his travels in Bordeaux

Les Chevrières holds the same plot Dominique’s grandfather planted more than 50 years ago

or on rocky subsoils

Owned by the Ezzard family and their partners John and Marilyn McMullan

when it was confiscated by the state and sold as a national asset

grilled vegetables

Henri Maire was asked what might have happened to the jura wine region if he had not been there to pull it up by its bootstraps

with significant diurnal-nocturnal temperature differences

and fermented with regular punch-downs to keep the cap submerged

Les Caillerets

The different exposure and the geological differences of the soils produce different Sangiovese grapes where balance and power compensate one another in the wine cellar through the patient work which always seeks the best blend of tradition and innovation