Fabio Ferracane – Guancianera 2022

From a long-running family of vignaiolo, Fabio Ferracane has lived in Marsala on Sicily’s west coast his whole life. His parcels of vines are split across two locations; those planted over sandy soils a few steps away from the ocean, looking out over the salt pans to the Stagnone Islands, and those a little further inland, sat in a valley over calcareous clay, amongst a patchwork of rolling hills that are close enough to still feel the effects of the maritime breeze. For the most part he grows the Sicilian workhorse grape, Catarratto, but produces wines that are anything but middling or conventional.

Grapes ; 100% Nero d´Avola, 20m a.s.l, clayey-loamy. 

Vinification; 8 days of skin contact, pressing and 11 months of ageing in inox vats.