Cerasuolo di Vittoria 2019, Valle dell'Acate

An intense and brilliant cherry red, Cerasuolo di Vittoria is made from two native Sicilian grapes: Nero d’Avola and Frappato. The nose is rich and fragrant with wild berry, ripe cherry, spice, vanilla, cocoa, blue flowers, forest floor, pine sap, wood and bramble. On the palate the wine is soft and full with velvety tannins, delivering concentrated raspberry and black cherry flavors, with hints of Mediterranean herbs. The aromatic finish is long, persistent and smooth.

About the Winery

Valle dell’Acate is in Feudo Biddini, in Ragusa province, an important archaeological site in Sicily, where a Greek necropolis was discovered. A significant cultural history permeates the natural heritage. Grape rows branch off for seventy hectares between the sinuous hills designed by Dirillo river, called Achates by the Romans.

It was Giuseppe Jacono that started wine production, opening the winery at the end of the 19th century, when Vittoria was in Sicily the most active center of Frappato wine export toward the French market. In 1981 Giuseppe Jacono Jr, father of Gaetana Jacono, today at the head of the company, started Valle dell’Acate to continue wine production based on the native grapes of south-eastern Sicily.