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“Saignée”, Terre Siciliane Rosso

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The vines for Aldo’s red wines grow 30 kilometers from his home village of Alcamo, in a dry, hot microclimate not dissimilar to that of northern Africa, buffeted by the same scorching sirocco winds. “Saignée” blends roughly equal parts Nerello Mascalese, Perricone, and Syrah—which thrives in this zone’s parched heat as it does in Morocco’s. Aldo ferments it in steel with a week-long maceration, then ages it for a year in large Slavonian oak casks, bottling it with a miniscule dose of sulfur. The wine is ripe but controlled, with tenderly rendered bright red fruits complicated by a fascinating umami note not unlike that of high-quality tomato paste. Appropriately southern in its sun-drenched persona, this wine is nonetheless sprightly and highly drinkable.

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The vines for Aldo’s red wines grow 30 kilometers from his home village of Alcamo, in a dry, hot microclimate not dissimilar to that of northern Africa, buffeted by the same scorching sirocco winds. “Saignée” blends roughly equal parts Nerello Mascalese, Perricone, and Syrah—which thrives in this zone’s parched heat as it does in Morocco’s. Aldo ferments it in steel with a week-long maceration, then ages it for a year in large Slavonian oak casks, bottling it with a miniscule dose of sulfur. The wine is ripe but controlled, with tenderly rendered bright red fruits complicated by a fascinating umami note not unlike that of high-quality tomato paste. Appropriately southern in its sun-drenched persona, this wine is nonetheless sprightly and highly drinkable.

About Aldo Viola

Born in the late 1960s into a winemaking family in Alcamo, in the northwest corner of Sicily, Aldo helped his father around the winery as a boy (as children of vignaioli are wont to do), but his path to becoming an iconoclastic producer in his own right was far from straight and narrow.
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