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Palmento Costanzo
Etna Bianco Contrada Cavaliere
Sicily · Italy·Vintage 2020
Critics
Tasting note
Straw yellow colour with green nuances, with an intense, rich and ample bouquet of orange blossom, citrus and tropical fruits and with notes of oregano and flint. On the palate mineral and sinuous with a pleasant acidity and a sapid finish.
The wine
- Grape
- Carricante 90%, Catarratto 10%
- Style
- White
- Alcohol
- 12%
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Nicola Centonze
The producer
Palmento Costanzo
Passopisciaro · Etna, SicilyFounded 201018 ha of vineyardpalmentocostanzo.com
Palmento Costanzo sits in Contrada Santo Spirito on the northern slope of Etna, around a conservatively restored 19th-century palmento (traditional lava-stone wine press) with a new bio-architectural cellar built beside it. Its eighteen hectares are terraced across several contrade, each on a different lava flow, and every parcel is vinified separately in steel, tonneaux or large casks so each soil speaks with its own voice.