Passopisciaro Contrada PC Bianco 2022 Wine (75cl)

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The Contrada PC 2022 is mineral, savory, and vibrant. The bouquet is complex and pronounced, with white-skinned summer fruits intertwined with citrus sensations and notes of bread crust. The taste reveals a superb balance and a long, persistent finish. Love tasting this. Subtle cooked apples, sandalwood, white roses, apple blossoms and sliced pears on the nose. Medium- to full-bodied, this has precise, crunchy fruit and a spicy, pleasantly bitter aftertaste from the stone, ash and flint. From chardonnay planted at 950 meters of altitude. A bright yellow hue, the 2022 Bianco Contrada PC is a Chardonnay from the Contrada Passo Chianche, situated between 950 and 1000 meters in elevation. It was aged for 16 months in large Slavonian casks and cement tanks. This is an exceptional and structured wine, with profound saltiness and density, fantastic notes of pure, ripe lemon, white pepper, floral perfume, and ripe notes of melon rind, white peach, and salted citrus. Full-bodied, it has electric energy and persistence, as well as great tension and nervous energy throughout. Sage, mint, apricot skin and lime marmalade scents pull you in to an intense, juicy and wonderfully sapid palate, with a lovely lick of tropical fruits and some floral white peach. Poised and zesty, with a stoniness on the mid-palate, it's an inspired bottling from high up on the Etna's north slope. Estate director Vincenzo Lo Mauro believes that the Chardonnay Passopisciaro grows in Passochianci - a subzone of Guardiola reaching up to 970 metres above sea level - is the highest in Europe. Contrada PC is 100% Chardonnay from this plot, and is almost reminiscent of grand cru Chablis.