Wines
Bianco d'Altura
The other white in the cabinet, pale label, silver capsule. «D'altura» says where it comes from: up in the hills, where the night cools down and the grapes keep their acidity. Pure Catarratto, Sicilia DOC.
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Tenute Lombardo
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Contrada Cusatino, just outside Caltanissetta: the centre of Sicily, on dry limestone land between 550 and 650 metres, where day and night differ by more than fifteen degrees. Thirty hectares across six estates, three brothers carrying on their father’s work, and since 2006 everything happens there: vineyard, cellar, ageing and bottling.
Sicily
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Fiore diNero
A rosé with a pale colour, between copper and onion skin. It sits beside the whites, and it is the wine you open while it is still warm out and nobody wants a red yet. Nero d’Avola vinified as a rosé, Sicilia DOC.
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Grillo d'Altura
A white from grillo grapes, the Sicilian white grape par excellence. Pale blue label, easy to spot among the reds. Pure Grillo, Sicilia DOC.
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Nero d'Altura
The red of the same family, grey label. Three or four stand in a row in the cabinet: it is the one Rossella keeps in quantity, and that usually means it is the one people drink. Nero d’Avola, twelve months in barrique, Sicilia DOC.