CODA DELLA FOCE

Coda della foce is a blend of Nero d’Avola, Merlot and Petit Verdot, separately made and refined, assembled after an accurate selection from the best barrels that express great personality year after year. A fresh winter and a warm and dry summer have determined a slow and perfect ripening of the grapes, providing them with a significant degree of natural acidity and a charming, rich aromatic complexity.
Our impressions: The wine has a dark ruby red colour with a deep purple hue, and reveals intense aromas of rose and violet, fruity notes of raspberry jam and the finest sweet spices. On the palate it is full and well balanced: its good structure and smooth tannins are enriched by notes of red berries and black cocoa powder. Balsamic and pleasant mineral tones on the finish.
 
Type of wine: Red
Appellation: Menfi DOC
Production area: Tenuta Belicello
Grapes: 40% Nero d’Avola, 40% Petit Verdot, 20% Merlot
Number of bottles produced: 6,200
Soil type: Very deep alluvial soil, medium texture
Planting year: 2000
Yield per hectare: 7.5 tons - 1.5 Kg per vine
Planting density: 5,000 vines/hectare
Harvest: Second half of August (Merlot) and first decade of September (Petit Verdot and Nero d’Avola)
Grape-picking: Manual harvest
Winemaking: The grapes were destemmed and crushed. From medium to long maceration on the skins and fermentation in stainless steel tanks at 25-28 °C
Malolactic fermentation: Completed
Maturation: 16 months in French barriques and tonneaux and in one big 30 hectolitres barrel (Slavonian Oak)
Refining: 6 months in bottles
Alcohol content: 13.5% by Vol
Total acidity: 5.9 g/l
pH: 3.55
Residual sugar: 3.1 g/l
Taste it with: Veal stew “Palermitano” style.
We also suggest: Ragusano DOP cheese, Pecorino with pepper (Valle del Belice) cheese.