Purato Siccari Appassimento Terre Siciliane IGP 2023

Creating a red wine using appassimento brings a whole new dimension to a wine - Siccari has a rich and complex structure, with very soft berry fruits and a touch of spice. Incredibly characterful, it has layer upon layer of intense and diverse fruit flavours and a very long finish.

The grapes come from vineyards in the Vittoria area of Southeast Sicily. The sandy soil is known locally as “ferretti”, which adds to the concentration and finesse of the wines. We dry a proportion of the grapes on the vine, the rest we pick and dry with the utmost care on racks. The name Siccari comes from the Sicilian dialect for “seccare”, which translates as “to dry” in the context of foods, something that is very much a part of Sicilian culture. We chose this name as an indicator of the style, since a proportion of the grapes are sun-dried before vinification.

Vinification is carried out as gently as possible. De-stemming is followed by a particularly soft crushing. We carry out very frequent pumping over in the early part of fermentation. After the Malolactic is complete, the wine is aged in 30HL Slavonian oak barrels.

the wine is aged in 30HL Slavonian oak barrels .

Meaty pasta sauces, second courses of red meats, aged cheeses with pronounced flavour.