Red Wine Castel San Giacomo Rosso Igp Terre Siciliane, package of 1 bottle of 0.75 cl. Red wine from Terre Siciliane, Southern Italy, Italy, made from Cabernet Franc and Nero d'Avola grapes. Information: classification: Protected Geographical Indication – Terre Siciliane. Variety: Nero d’Avola and Cabernet Franc. Production area: Sant’Oliva district – Licata – Agrigento – Italy. Altitude: 150 meters above sea level. Vineyard exposure: South West. Climate: mild winters, warm and little rainy springs and autumns, very hot and dry summers. Average age of the vineyards: 12 years. Yield: 75 quintals of grapes per hectare. Training system: guyot. Plant density: 4000 plants per hectare. Vinification and aging: the bunches are destemmed and placed in temperature-controlled tanks, starting fermentation with skin maceration. The pressing of the wine occurs upon completion of alcoholic fermentation in a horizontal pneumatic press. Long aging in stainless steel tank and then in cement tanks for 18 months, 3 months in the bottle before commercialization. Additional characteristics: alcohol 13.0 % vol, total acidity 5.0 g/lt, soil type calcareous of medium texture with clayey intrusions. Harvest: manual and morning, at perfect ripeness, in different periods of September depending on the varieties. Color: intense ruby red. Aroma: on the nose it presents distinct varietal notes of marasca cherry with herbal and spicy hints. Pairings: excellent with pasta dressed with rich meat sauces, ham, salami, and cheeses, or with dark chocolate. Since 1800, we cultivate excellence. The Casa Vinicola Quignones comes to life thanks to the passionate and gentle work of Alfredo Quignones, who carries on a project started by his great-great-grandfather in the ’800, aiming today for the production of natural wines that offer a different expression of Sicily, through the use of rare vines and particular methods of winemaking and aging. We are proudly small, we produce wine and extra virgin olive oil, linked to traditional practices such as stringent hand harvesting and the patient aging of wines. Our wines are the result of a love story: that between the hills where our vines mature and the sea. The hill, cloaked by the sun and superb nature, sighs gazing at the immense sea. Ancient landscapes that extend over more than 100 hectares in the most authentic and least known Sicily, lands filled with millennia of history, and that belong to the Quignones family for over 2 centuries. To make good wine, time is needed. We bottle it for a living, so that you can enjoy it, adding our time to yours: perhaps this is the magic that a bottle of wine can create. Over two centuries of history and good family traditions. It was Baron Raffaele Quignones, great-great-grandfather of the current owner, who purchased the vast property known as Tenuta d’Apaforte. In this charming frame, characterized by ancient olive trees, large almond groves and particularly calcareous soil, there was a vineyard. It produced that grape, of an intense violet hue, with the typically loose bunch, always called Calabrese. But as time passed, when the almond groves gave way to vineyards, it was discovered that the precious Nero d’Avola inhabited those lands. Today, Alfredo Quignones follows in his father's footsteps, who in the early 1970s decided to convert part of the company specializing in vine cultivation, carrying on a tradition that has now become centuries old. The ancient pergola systems were converted into long rows of guyot that host the Nero d’Avola and Inzolia vines, accompanied by cultivars such as Chardonnay, Fiano, Syrah, and Petit Verdot, thus promoting the excellences that symbolize the Mediterranean territory. The one hundred hectares of our lands, predominantly calcareous in nature, extend in the south of Sicily, in Licata, province of Agrigento. Our vineyards rise at the foot of the hill of Sant’Oliva and spread all the way to the top, overlooking the vast plain of Licata, which continues up to the sandy Mediterranean coasts. Exposed to the South-West, the plants enjoy the warmth of the sun for most of the day. Moreover, thanks to their proximity to the sea, they are constantly refreshed by the light marine breezes typical of the Mediterranean, giving the grapes truly special characteristics.
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Red Wine Castel San Giacomo Rosso Igp Terre Siciliane, package of 1 bottle of 0.75 cl. Red wine from Terre Siciliane, Southern Italy, Italy, made from Cabernet Franc and Nero d'Avola grapes. Information: classification: Protected Geographical Indication – Terre Siciliane. Variety: Nero d’Avola and Cabernet Franc. Production area: Sant’Oliva district – Licata – Agrigento – Italy. Altitude: 150 meters above sea level. Vineyard exposure: South West. Climate: mild winters, warm and little rainy springs and autumns, very hot and dry summers. Average age of the vineyards: 12 years. Yield: 75 quintals of grapes per hectare. Training system: guyot. Plant density: 4000 plants per hectare. Vinification and aging: the bunches are destemmed and placed in temperature-controlled tanks, starting fermentation with skin maceration. The pressing of the wine occurs upon completion of alcoholic fermentation in a horizontal pneumatic press. Long aging in stainless steel tank and then in cement tanks for 18 months, 3 months in the bottle before commercialization. Additional characteristics: alcohol 13.0 % vol, total acidity 5.0 g/lt, soil type calcareous of medium texture with clayey intrusions. Harvest: manual and morning, at perfect ripeness, in different periods of September depending on the varieties. Color: intense ruby red. Aroma: on the nose it presents distinct varietal notes of marasca cherry with herbal and spicy hints. Pairings: excellent with pasta dressed with rich meat sauces, ham, salami, and cheeses, or with dark chocolate. Since 1800, we cultivate excellence. The Casa Vinicola Quignones comes to life thanks to the passionate and gentle work of Alfredo Quignones, who carries on a project started by his great-great-grandfather in the ’800, aiming today for the production of natural wines that offer a different expression of Sicily, through the use of rare vines and particular methods of winemaking and aging. We are proudly small, we produce wine and extra virgin olive oil, linked to traditional practices such as stringent hand harvesting and the patient aging of wines. Our wines are the result of a love story: that between the hills where our vines mature and the sea. The hill, cloaked by the sun and superb nature, sighs gazing at the immense sea. Ancient landscapes that extend over more than 100 hectares in the most authentic and least known Sicily, lands filled with millennia of history, and that belong to the Quignones family for over 2 centuries. To make good wine, time is needed. We bottle it for a living, so that you can enjoy it, adding our time to yours: perhaps this is the magic that a bottle of wine can create. Over two centuries of history and good family traditions. It was Baron Raffaele Quignones, great-great-grandfather of the current owner, who purchased the vast property known as Tenuta d’Apaforte. In this charming frame, characterized by ancient olive trees, large almond groves and particularly calcareous soil, there was a vineyard. It produced that grape, of an intense violet hue, with the typically loose bunch, always called Calabrese. But as time passed, when the almond groves gave way to vineyards, it was discovered that the precious Nero d’Avola inhabited those lands. Today, Alfredo Quignones follows in his father's footsteps, who in the early 1970s decided to convert part of the company specializing in vine cultivation, carrying on a tradition that has now become centuries old. The ancient pergola systems were converted into long rows of guyot that host the Nero d’Avola and Inzolia vines, accompanied by cultivars such as Chardonnay, Fiano, Syrah, and Petit Verdot, thus promoting the excellences that symbolize the Mediterranean territory. The one hundred hectares of our lands, predominantly calcareous in nature, extend in the south of Sicily, in Licata, province of Agrigento. Our vineyards rise at the foot of the hill of Sant’Oliva and spread all the way to the top, overlooking the vast plain of Licata, which continues up to the sandy Mediterranean coasts. Exposed to the South-West, the plants enjoy the warmth of the sun for most of the day. Moreover, thanks to their proximity to the sea, they are constantly refreshed by the light marine breezes typical of the Mediterranean, giving the grapes truly special characteristics.
