Sommeliers Choice Awards 2024 Winners
viola teresa
Category: Winery
Country: Italy
Date:01/04/2014
The Rose Cottage is a farm and farm, situated in a wide valley warm and quiet countryside of Caltagirone , a town situated in the heart of Sicily, where snow-capped Mount Etna and the Mediterranean Sea seem to face each other gently from side to side of this city , queen of Erei . Centuries of love for the land and its fruits bind generations of our family to this land and to this company. Once fully planted with a millstone inside and with huge chestnut barrels that contained the treasure red , the result of a culture capable of producing a scented liquid , intense, always recognized pregievole , but also full of great sacrifice and commitment to work arms and great sacrifices and even then satisfaction and gratification of our products. progenitors . The children today, who wanted to make this company a modern , accessible to outsiders , but by combining quality and tradition in the right proportion , they were confronted by a father who suddenly scrapped the intransigent ideas of peasant property strict and indispensable in the management , which opened its conservative ideas to modernize , applying what is necessary to preserve for future generations the company and winemaking tradition , right, entrusting the improvement of the quality transformation processes more ' modern and hygienically safe . For this' and return quietly to this great leap in quality and modernization of the children have dedicated to his first name the first label that will always remain exclusively tied to its beautiful and large donation of modernity : " Don Michelangelo". Today the farm at two grape varieties cultivated under organic farming , nerello cap and syrah , meet like two people from different continents , in a unique and pristine, forced by need, initially , to live in the same house and then suddenly joined together to express a oneness, a strength and an intense expression of sicilianità strengths of both solar light and heat that of love, inexplicably to producea unique combination and a perfect marriage . And it is the hot season that just ended manually from these espalier vineyards grapes are harvested manually and quickly transported to the winery for the first machining operation. Grapes grown on plants that are grown and defended only with natural products in a microclimate where the warm currents of the Mediterranean Sea intersect with those of the great and mighty mountains of Sicily that is the ' Etna furrowing the tips of Erei . And it is wise human intelligence using modern technology succeeds in preserving the organoleptic qualities of the grape must in fermentation which becomes processed and eventually a large ruby red wine with an intense bouquet of red berries delicate , dry, smooth , with ripe tannins and balanced , an elegant tapered glass bottle with a cork stopper fine from the same territory , destined to live intensely the wine in the bottle and at the same time always ready to captivate lovers of goodness wine tasting , gourmet , limited to bottles available for the year 2012, numbered from 1 to 6500 .