The Winery 12 Chiavi of Sicile

Winery 12 Chiavi - Azoth Inzolia
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 5161 of the estates of Sicile.
It is located in Sicile

The Winery 12 Chiavi is one of the best wineries to follow in Sicile.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Sicile to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery 12 Chiavi wines

Looking for the best Winery 12 Chiavi wines in Sicile among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery 12 Chiavi 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 12 Chiavi wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery 12 Chiavi

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery 12 Chiavi

How Winery 12 Chiavi wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of arroz de marisco, cream and tuna quiche or chicken skewers with curry and lemon.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery 12 Chiavi

  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery 12 Chiavi.

  • Inzolia
  • Grillo

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 red wines of Winery 12 Chiavi

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery 12 Chiavi

How Winery 12 Chiavi wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef with balsamic sauce, lasagna calabrese or lamb garam massala.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery 12 Chiavi

In the mouth the red wine of Winery 12 Chiavi. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery 12 Chiavi

  • 2014With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery 12 Chiavi.

  • Nero d'Avola

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.

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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.

News about Winery 12 Chiavi and wines from the region

BBQ wines: Great bottles to drink with all your barbecue dishes

What kind of wine should you serve at a BBQ?  With the weather (hopefully) on our side, there are few things better than a barbecue in the sunshine accompanied by a delicious glass of wine. Choosing a good bottle for your barbecue can really elevate the occasion, although for something a little less formal, there’s plenty to choose from in terms of canned or bag-in-box wines instead. Forget those days of washing down a burnt burger with warm Chardonnay or a ‘cooked’ red served in a plastic ...

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...

France expects bigger 2022 wine harvest but drought is a concern

France’s 2022 wine harvest is likely to be between 42.6 million and 45.6m hectolitres, up by 13% to 21% on the frost-hit 2021 vintage and more in-line with the country’s five-year average. One hectolitre is equivalent to 100 litres. Yet drought could impact on yields in the coming weeks, adding extra uncertainty in several regions, said the French agriculture ministry’s Agreste statistics unit. Expected vintage quality isn’t covered by the preliminary outlook. It added the 2022 growing season is ...

The word of the wine: Melchior

Bottle with a capacity of 18 litres.