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DARIO SERRENTINO ‘CALA’ TERRE SICILIANE 2019:
Rosso Siciliano with Nero d'Avola and a dollop of Grillo. Made by Dario Serrentino from Franco Scire’s organic certified vineyards and cantina, located in the contrade of San Lorenzo and Buonivini in Val di Noto.

‘Cala’ is the word for grape in the Sicilan dialect.
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“By day the hot sun fermented us,” as T.E: Lawrence wrote of the Arabian desert, but also equally applicable to the Val di Noto in Sicily’s sun beaten southeastern tip.

Winemaker Dario Serrentino believes that the desert-like calcareous soils and cool night air here help temper alcohol and give lift to his wine. And so it would seem with ‘CALA,’ which drinks like a welcome oasis of shade, restorative and invigorating.

We were in agreement with Dario in wanting 'CALA' Nero d'Avola to be light-on-its-feet drinky, but not lose sight of the telltale Nero d’Avola warm spice-and-earth. Dario followed Franco’s vineyards and had him pick just a bit early, and added a punchy 10% of Grillo grapes.

Upon first taste of ‘CALA,’ oh la la... we were transported away from the expected Frankincense scented church pews of customary Nero d’Avola, delivered instead to a bath all’aperto on Siciliy's Ionian coast!

Balmy and salty sea-breeze, with moreish small red and black berries, fresh red plums, citrusy spice Rooibos tea. Continuing that sea-breeze note, there's always that distinctive anchovy / iodine from wines from Noto.
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Just landed: new FUSO wine from Sicily called CALA

Just landed: new FUSO wine from Sicily called CALA. It's from a project we're doing with Dario Serentino from @dario_vini_mortellito. Grazie @bartsasso for the authentic yet original lines on the label.

SUNDAY @ 2pm Join @flatironwines as they go LIVE

SUNDAY @ 2pm
Join @flatironwines as they go LIVE from the vineyard with Dario Serrentino of Mortellito @dario_vini_mortellito ✨
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Val di Noto sits in the southeast corner of the Sicilian triangle, dipping down to the latitude of North Africa. In spite of the warm climate, the local varieties (especially Grillo and Frappato) and white limestone soils are capable of producing balanced wines with tension and moderate alcohol.
After years of selling off his organic grapes to naturalista winemakers, Dario started to vinify and bottle his own wines in 2014 as Mortellito. Dario is a naturalista as well, focusing on making clean wines that taste extreme only in their deliciousness. He organically farms his family’s 23 hectares, 15 of which are under vine; the rest are a mix of ancient olive groves and heirloom almond varieties. His wines have a tempered hedonism, a mix of ‘taking’ in the sun (as the Italian idiom goes), and then ‘taking a bath’ in the salty-cool sea.
...and Dario happens to know plenty about the sea, being that he is a scuba instructor on the side 💦👨‍🌾💦🍷💦
Andiamo! 🔥

🎵: Heartbreaker - Mariah Carey (ft. Jay-Z)
#valdinoto #organicviticulture #moscatodinoto #vininaturali #naturalwines #realwine #ilmortellito #portovinoitaliano #scubalife

Both were excellent. Yet, the De Fermo @de_fermo M

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Grazie @_tessdrumheller for believing and encouraging me to the 'wild' part of Italy.

#wherethewildthingsare #italia #italianonfrenchissimosarebbebetterissimo

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Amici: Help us oppose additional wine tariffs! TODAY 7/26 is the final day to leave a comment with the USTR about the impact of wine tariffs.
@uswinealliance
www.endwinetariffs.com
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Fritto misto has become bastardized in Italy. But

Fritto misto has become bastardized in Italy. But not here in Piombino @larocchettaristorante.

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All with a view of the ferries bring folks to Elba.

Many people ask me for a place to hike along the c

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I have your spot, hiking along a pre-Roman, Etruscan trail, from Volterra to the gritty port city of Piombino. Then, take the ferry to Elba.

I bitch a bit about Italy, even after all these years - but its Beauty - it's at every next corner.

#workvacation #italia #portovinoitaliano #poorbutrich

Need of metaphor: Strada senza uscita / No exit.

Need of metaphor: Strada senza uscita / No exit.

... Italy is giving me "her own half" these days.

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Italy is giving me "her own half" these days.

"One half of me is yours, and the other half—my own half, I’d call it—belongs to you too. If it’s mine, then it’s yours, and so I’m all yours."

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

#italia #covid19 #venice #shakespeare #portovinoitaliano

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Brava Cinzia at @levignedialice !

That's me and my *tall * 12 year old son crossing

That's me and my *tall * 12 year old son crossing our arms, calmly gesturing our preference for loop hikes.

We've hiked and chowed at many a rifugio in the alps so far this week, but Bonner Hütte so far is my fav for food, view, rustic essential architecture - and of course for the loop hike there and back.

#dolomiti #portovinoitaliano #rifugio #hiking #italia #moderation

Lago di Braies is the jewel of the Alpine lakes in

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The tireless cut of the radiant-wind here envigorates.

#altoadige #dolomiti #italia #portovinoitaliano

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