FAVINIA Le Sciabiche

COLOR: Intense and compact with shades tending to purple.
NOSE: Elegant shades of red currants and blueberries alternating with hints of cloves, delicate spices and blond tobacco enfolded in fresh balsamic notes.
PALATE: Consistent, with fragrant flesh; it fills the palate with absolute confidence through a powerful structure accompanied by fine enfolding tannins of great finesse set against a background characterized by marked minerality and tanginess reminiscent of the sea

Cured meats and butchery, long-aged cheese

In the Calamoni Estate, the excellence of the native vine varieties of Nero d’Avola and Perricone is enhanced with the sensory properties of grapes ripened in an extreme environment in terms of its climate conditions and vicinity to the sea. Favinia Le Sciabiche is the gift resulting from the constant synergic action of the sea, wind and earth. It is the result of the great care Firriato extends to Sicilian land. The soil of the Calamoni Estate is rich in marine fossils and fish skeletons which have sedimented over the course of millennia. The extraordinary features of the terroir, in which Quaternary bio-calcarenite limestone plays a fundamental role, gives the wine an intense pleasantly saline note which together with the elegant aromas of Mediterranean scrub make for an outstandingly unique red wine, comparable to a great Pinot Noir.