Tenuta delle Terre Nere San Lorenzo Etna Rosso DOC 2019

Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso San Lorenzo 2019

Etna Rosso San Lorenzo comes from 4 hectares of vineyards in the district of the same name in the municipality of Randazzo. The vines are more than 70 years old, the altitude is 750 meters above sea level, and the soil is almost pure volcanic sand. Estimated production is about 60 hl. The terroir of the San Lorenzo district originated from lava flows and volcano-clastic deposits related to the effusive and explosive activity of the Ellittico eruptive center , approximately between 60,000 and 15,000 years ago. Although very young in geological terms, the soil of the Elliptic is the oldest surface layer where planting is possible. The reason is simple: millennia of lava flows have buried The oldest soils, leaving, in fact, only small and rare portions of the Ellithic soil. On the northern slope of Etna there are four or five Contrade that have “elliptical terroir.” Three soils, however, are spurious in that the igneous nature of the Ellittico was mixed with alluvial soils of sedimentary nature due to the overflow of the Alcantara River. On the northern slope of Etna only two Contrade out of hundreds and hundreds are “pure” Elliptic terroir: Calderara and San Lorenzo. The wine from this cru is particularly rich, fruity and with very soft tannins, making it velvety and voluptuous on the palate.