The Winery Le Contrade of Sicile

Winery Le Contrade
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Cantina Corbera.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Sicile.
It is located in Sicile

The Winery Le Contrade is one of the best wineries to follow in Sicile.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Sicile to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Le Contrade wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Le Contrade

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Le Contrade

How Winery Le Contrade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of baeckeoffe, lasagna bolognese express or irish stew with beer.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Le Contrade

On the nose the red wine of Winery Le Contrade. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Le Contrade. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Le Contrade

  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Le Contrade.

  • Nero d'Avola
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Sicile

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.

The top white wines of Winery Le Contrade

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Le Contrade

How Winery Le Contrade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of scallops with coconut cream, light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream) or lili's gressins.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Le Contrade

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Le Contrade. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Le Contrade

  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Le Contrade.

  • Grillo
  • Isabella

Discover the grape variety: Nero d'Avola

Most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very well known. It should be noted that a certain number of Italian grape varieties bear the synonym or name "calabrese", whether or not followed by an epithet, and care should be taken not to confuse them. Calabrese is also known in the United States, Italy, Bulgaria and Malta. In France, it is virtually absent from the vineyard, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

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Discover the grape variety: Grillo

A very ancient grape variety still grown today in western Sicily. Very often associated with catarratto and inzolia, it produces the famous Marsala liqueur wine. It is also increasingly being vinified as a single variety and produces excellent dry wines full of freshness and fruitiness. Grillo is believed to be the result of an intra-fertile cross between catarratto and Muscat of Alexandria or zibibbo, obtained in 1869 by Antonino Mendola. It is represented by two biotypes that can be easily recognized, but it seems that winegrowers attach little importance to them. Little known in other Italian regions - in Liguria it is known as "rossese bianco" - it can also be found in Australia and South Africa. It is not widely grown in France, although it is interesting because of its ability to withstand hot climates and drought, and to ripen quite late.

News about Winery Le Contrade and wines from the region

Etna announces nine new contrade with map update

On the highest volcano in Europe, the magic number is 142: the contrade of Etna represented on a colourful new map just released by the Consorzio Tutela Vini Etna DOC. In the age of viticultural cartography, the Sicilian district has embraced ‘zoning’ to enhance every single nuance of its territory, mostly cultivated with Nerello Mascalese and Carricante. ‘This map establishes the full viticultural maturity of our district and underlines the attitude of its winemakers to team up,’ said Francesco ...

Chianti Classico DOCG raises the bar: Producers to add new subzone and Gran Selezione 

In 1932, the Italian government expanded the boundaries of Chianti to incorporate neighbouring territories where grapes and chianti-style wines had long been produced. And in 1967, four years after the enactment of the Italian DOC system (Denominazione di Origine Controllata), the first official Chianti DOC was created, including seven sub-zones: Colli Fiorentini, Colli Senesi, Rùfina, Colli Aretini, Colline Pisane and Montalbano, plus the original Chianti Classico. The entire area was elevated ...

Château Peyrabon in Bordeaux gets new owner

BCAP, a group controlled by the Castéja family, has agreed to acquire Château Peyrabon and Château La Fleur Peyrabon from Millésima, a subsidiary of the Bernard family, a joint-statement by both families said. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Peyrabon, in Haut-Médoc, was ranked as a ‘Supérieur’ estate in the Cru Bourgeois 2020 classification, which saw the ranking return to a three-tier system. ‘Supérieur’ is above standard Cru Bourgeois level but below ‘Exceptionnel’. Millésima and the Bern ...

The word of the wine: Barrel

A wooden barrel made of oak that varies in size depending on the region and is used to age wines. Some white wines are vinified and aged in barrels.