Federico Graziani

2022 Rosso di Mezzo

Etna Rosso DOC
Nerello Mascalese 85% and Nerello Cappuccio 15%
Red wine

Rosso di Mezzo was born by chance, during the 2018 harvest: after almost 30 days of rain in September, the grapes from the hundred-year-old vines were slender and delicate and low in sugar content. I couldn’t vinify this thin and fragile juice in oak; and from the fermentation it turned out to be an extraordinary wine in terms of finesse, complexity and grace.I wanted to produce it again in subsequent vintages by drawing on the refined expression of a single vineyard, in the heart of Contrada Feudo di Mezzo in Passopisciaro, vinified in steel and enriched by a tonneau from the century-old vineyard