Cerasuolo di Vittoria
7 wineries and 12 wines. Sicily's only DOCG covers a broad stretch of the island's south-east, about 124,500 hectares across the provinces of Ragusa, Caltanissetta and Catania, closed by the Erei mountains to the north, the Iblei to the east, the hills of Caltanissetta to the west and the Mediterranean to the south. It rises in three bands: a coastal strip up to 200 metres, middle hills to 350, and higher ground above. Read more ↓
- Tier
- DOCG
- Region
- Sicily
- Grapes
- Nero d'Avola
- Styles
- Red
- Vineyards
- 1 named
- Producers
- 7
Wineries making Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Agricola Cos Cerasuolo di Vittoria · 13 winesPithos Bianco IGP
Azienda Agricola Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia · 14 winesSerraCalcara
DorilliCerasuolo di Vittoria · 3 winesCerasuolo di Vittoria
Gulfi14 wines1 Tre Bicchieri 2011 · NeroMaccarj
Feudi del PisciottoSicilia · 28 winesCatarratto | Colori di SiciliaAzienda Agricola Cortese10 winesNostru Carricante Terre Siciliane IGPDonnafugata Vittoria3 winesFloramundiCerasuolo di Vittoria wines
Named vineyards
About Cerasuolo di Vittoria
The bedrock is mostly Miocene calcarenite under loose Pleistocene soils, with sandy and sandy-clay formations in places. Half the soils are leached brown earths and terra rossa on calcarenite; the rest are brown soils on sand and conglomerate, heavy vertisols and river alluvium. The climate is hot and dry, with little summer rain, and vines are trained only as bush vines or on simple trellises.
Cerasuolo — "cherry-red" — blends 50 to 70 per cent Nero d'Avola with 30 to 50 per cent Frappato. It may be sold from the first of June after the harvest; the Classico not before the 31st of March of the second year. The town of Vittoria itself was founded for wine: in 1606 Vittoria Colonna Henriquez, Countess of Modica, gave its first 75 settlers a hectare of land each on condition that they planted another with vines. Cerasuolo di Vittoria became a DOC in 1973 and a DOCG in 2005.