The Winery Contrada Salinello of Sicily

Winery Contrada Salinello
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 3943 of the estates of Sicily.
It is located in Sicily

The Winery Contrada Salinello is one of the best wineries to follow in Sicile.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Sicily to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Contrada Salinello wines

Looking for the best Winery Contrada Salinello wines in Sicily among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Contrada Salinello wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Contrada Salinello wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Contrada Salinello

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Contrada Salinello

How Winery Contrada Salinello wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef goulash, one pot pasta with creamy chicken farfalle or lamb roast with lavender.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Contrada Salinello

  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Contrada Salinello.

  • Nero d'Avola
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Sicily

Sicily is the Southernmost region of Italy, and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. For over 2500 years, Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) has been an important centre of Mediterranean viticulture, although the reputation and style of its wines have changed considerably over time. The island was once best known for its Sweet muscatels (see Pantelleria), and later for its fortified Marsala. Today, many of its best-known wines are Dry table wines produced under the regional designation IGT Terre Siciliane, or Sicilia DOC (see below).

At its widest point, Sicily measures 280 kilometers (175 miles) from east to west, and about a third of that distance from North to south. Its roughly triangular shape earned the island the nickname Trinacria (the triangle) in the Middle Ages and is reflected in the triskelion (a three-pronged pattern) at the Center of the regional flag. With constant sunshine and moderate rainfall, Sicily's classic Mediterranean Climate is ideally suited to wine Grape production. The Warm, dry climate means that mould and rot are kept to a minimum, especially in well-ventilated areas that benefit from coastal breezes.

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Discover the grape variety: Robin noir

Discovered in the 1870s by Mr. Robin, who lived in the Drôme at the time in Lapeyrouse-Mornay, this ancient grape variety is believed to have originated in the north of Isère. It can also be found in Switzerland. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), it is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between Tressot Noir and Mondeuse Blanche. It should be noted in passing that, on the one hand, it has exactly the same parents as the mondeuse noire, that on the other hand, it is the mother of the diolinoir and, finally, is related to the servanin. Robin noir is not widely propagated today because it is not well known, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.