Next-level sister wine to Fabio's 'Macerato' cuvée with a more refined process. Here, an extended time in amphora has imprinted a whole new textural identity on that same herbal, pithy and deep maceration of Catarratto. There is the familiar eucalyptus and salt-tinged apricot stone fruit, but here the tannins feel filed-down and beautifully fine-grained from the contact with the clay vessel. Less grippy and tense, more open and complex, with an additional layer of copper-flecked minerals. A stunning skin-contact wine we put up there with our very favourites from this part of the world. 

The grapes are de-stemmed and then see a long maceration of 19 days before being pressed into clay amphora for a full year, after which the wine is bottled with no additions. This same base wine is used for Fabio's ' Macerato' cuvée, which following the time on skins sees a shorter ageing in steel tanks before going into the bottle. The two are fascinating to taste alongside one another as the influence the ageing vessel has on the wine becomes clear.