Altrimenti

PERPETUAL WHITE WINE

Altrimenti is Menfi’s traditional "house wine" produced with the technique of perpetual aging in a single oak barrel, where a 25-30% of younger wine is added every year to the older wine that is already being aged.

Made with grapes grown in the 60+ yo vineyard behind the houses (Dietro le Case), this wine testifies to the complex personality and extraordinary aging capacity of the most traditional and identifying grape variety of Menfi’s terroir.

CERTIFICATIONS

WINE DETAILS

Grapes: indigenous sicilian variety
Soil: clay soil with calcareous components, very rich in limestones and sea minerals
Vineyard: planted in 1960s, head-trained bush vines
Winemaking: skin contact for 48 hours in steel tanks
Alcoholic fermentation: spontaneous, with wild yeast
Malolactic fermentation: spontaneous
Refining: 4 months on fine lees, in steel tanks
Aging: in in a single barrel, where it ages in perpetuum with its sediment
Average production: a few dozen bottles every some years
Bottle size: 50 cl