Fuso CALA Dario Serrentino Rosso Terre Siciliane 2021

Fuso CALA Dario Serrentino Rosso Terre Siciliane 2021Dario Serrentino got his start by selling his organically farmed grapes to natural wine luminaries like Frank Cornelissen. It didn't take him too long to realize he could be making wine himself, and he now makes some of our favorite Sicilian wines, harnessing the briny heat that comes off the Mediterranean Sea. Dario is in Noto, so far south in Sicily it's at a lower latitude than the northern part of Africa. Somehow he tames the heat and gives us

But give it a minute and it mellows into something a little more savory

they use almost no temperature control

Martha sources thoughtfully farmed fruit from around California

who started the estate in 1985

and of course

His Blaufränkisch ‘Kalkstein’ comes from limestone soils (kalk translates to chalk)

Their daughter and son

and a very mild floral suggestion that is complemented by a bracing acidic cut

Destemmed and aged in large Alsatian foudrè

rooibos tea

Regular pump overs were utilized to keep the fermentation happy

And they do so unapologetically