The Winery Francesco Modica of Etna of Sicile

Winery Francesco Modica - Nonno Ciccio Etna Rosso
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Sicile.
It is located in Etna in the region of Sicile

The Winery Francesco Modica is one of the best wineries to follow in Etna.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Etna to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Francesco Modica wines

Looking for the best Winery Francesco Modica wines in Etna among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Francesco Modica 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 Francesco Modica wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Francesco Modica

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Francesco Modica

How Winery Francesco Modica wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, pasta bolognese or dad's lamb mouse.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Francesco Modica

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Francesco Modica. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Francesco Modica

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Francesco Modica.

  • Nerello Mascalese
  • Grecanico

Discovering the wine region of Etna

The wine region of Etna is located in the region of Sicile of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tenuta delle Terre Nere or the Domaine Gambino Vini produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Etna are Nerello mascalese, Carricante and Nero d'Avola, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Etna often reveals types of flavors of cherry, lime or new leather and sometimes also flavors of maraschino cherry, slate or crushed gravel.

In the mouth of Etna is a powerful. We currently count 176 estates and châteaux in the of Etna, producing 551 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Etna go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb.

The top white wines of Winery Francesco Modica

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Francesco Modica

How Winery Francesco Modica wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of mussels with marinara, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or mozzarella sticks.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Francesco Modica

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Francesco Modica. is a powerful.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Francesco Modica.

  • Grecanico
  • Carricante

Discover the grape variety: Carricante

It is most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very present, especially on the slopes of the eastern and southern slopes of Mount Etna. It is thought to be the result of a natural cross between montonico pinto and scacco. It has often been confused with the catarratto even today. Carricante is identified today by two known biotypes, A and B, ... a variety almost unknown in France, but registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

The top pink wines of Winery Francesco Modica

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Francesco Modica

How Winery Francesco Modica wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Francesco Modica.

  • Nerello Mascalese

The word of the wine: Oxidative (breeding)

A method of ageing which aims to give the wine certain aromas of evolution (dried fruit, bitter orange, coffee, rancio, etc.) by exposing it to the air; it is then matured either in barrels, demi-muids or unoaked casks, sometimes stored in the open air, or in barrels exposed to the sun and to temperature variations. This type of maturation characterizes certain natural sweet wines, ports and other liqueur wines.

Discover the grape variety: Nerello mascalese

A very old grape variety grown in Italy, more precisely in the north of Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna and in Sardinia. Its origin would be Greek because it was reported in Greece in the 7th century B.C. It is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between sangiovese or nielluccio and mantonico bianco. It should not be confused with nerello capuccio and pignatello nero. It should be noted that Nerello mascalese seems to be a grape variety adapted to altitude, as is the case in Sicily where it is planted at a rate of 6,000 and 9,000 vines per hectare. It is practically unknown in other wine-producing countries, which is certainly due to its late ripening.

News about Winery Francesco Modica and wines from the region

Lucio Tasca d’Almerita dies

Lucio Tasca d’Almerita died in Palermo this week, on 25 July, aged 82. In Sicily he was known simply as ‘Conte Lucio’, such was the reputation of the Count and the amount of respect and affection people had for him. Lucio was one of the pioneers of winemaking on the island from a technical point of view, but moreover he was able to demonstrate how effective the modernisation of Sicily could be from a cultural standpoint. Born in Palermo on 9 January 1940, he was an athlete in his youth and even ...

Andrea Franchetti: Obituary

Andrea Franchetti, one of the most talented and visionary Italian producers, has died at the age of 72 in Rome. In 30 years exactly, he positioned his superTuscan Trinoro among the top Italian references, producing a wine with stylish elegance and outstanding potential for ageing. Franchetti’s Bordeaux blends were without the over-extractions that were on-trend in the 2000s, nor the excess of fruit following phenolic maturity. He followed a precise idea to produce classic wines for the long haul ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Oxidative (breeding)

A method of ageing which aims to give the wine certain aromas of evolution (dried fruit, bitter orange, coffee, rancio, etc.) by exposing it to the air; it is then matured either in barrels, demi-muids or unoaked casks, sometimes stored in the open air, or in barrels exposed to the sun and to temperature variations. This type of maturation characterizes certain natural sweet wines, ports and other liqueur wines.