A new white wine by Barone di Villagrande will soon arrive. It is called “Legno di Conzo”, a Carricante with a unique purity, after four years of work. “It is an Etna Bianco, white wine, superior – explained Marco Nicolosi, a young manager of the family run business – which is the result of the processing of grapes from a very complex vine, especially as far as flavour is concerned”.

We start from the vine, collecting around 55 tons of grapes per hectare, then we work in the cellar, leaving the wine in the barrel for a year and another in the bottle, a determining stage for the development of its flavour, before putting it on the market. “We decided to point on this product – ended the manager – convinced that the Carricante is usually consumed too early to really understand its peculiarities and the place where it is produced”. A territory, the one of Etna, that produces top-quality goods and in the last couple of months it has been considered with great attention also by oenologists and wine lovers. Here the vines are located between 400 and 1000 metres above sea level in a strip of land that surrounds Mount Etna, characterized by different positions that generate different kinds of products.

The company, which is found in the south-eastern part produces fresh wine with a lower alcohol content and with a more delicate fragrance compared to the northern part. “This is why – explained Marco Nicolosi – the Etna Bianco superior can be obtained only from the Milo vines”. So different expositions that allow to recognize the origin of each wine, but all with one element in common: elegance.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute