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Etna Rosato DOC 2023
Fresh rosato with a flavour of dark berries and a hint of lavender. Clear fruit on the palate, with elegant suppleness, a fine mineral note and, last but not least, an appealing palatability. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nerello
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 3 months stainless steel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2028+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 24,15 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,18 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,48 g/l
- Sulfite: 85 mg/l
- pH value: 3,39
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Etna Bianco DOC 2023
Cottanera's animating Etna Bianco rises from the glass with a savoury blend of dried flowers, stone dust and freshly cut nectarine. Shows ripe stone fruit and a feeling of liquid stone accompanied by fresh acidity. Finishes crisp and long with a tart concentration of citrus that tickles the cheeks and keeps the taster reaching for the glass. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Carricante
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months stainless steel on fine yeast
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2029+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 21,85 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,23 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,54 g/l
- Sulfite: 88 mg/l
- pH value: 3,36
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Contrada Diciasettesalme” Rosso Etna DOC 2021
Brilliant ruby red colour. Diciasettesalme offers a wonderful bouquet of dark fruit flavours, some flint and Cuban cigar tobacco. Balanced, elegant, full-bodied and salty fresh on the palate. Stylistically and qualitatively very successful. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nerello
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months large wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2030+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,51 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,90 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- pH value: 3,49
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned19232421 · 0,75 l · 30,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping3 units available
Etna Rosso DOC 2022
Aromas of dried roses, incense, white pepper, lavender and crushed wild blueberries in the glass. Juicy character on the palate with zesty acidity and tart red and blue fruits. As it progresses, it tapers off with beautiful primary tension and leaves a mysterious hint of gravel and bitter blackberry on the palate. Wonderful exoticism from Etna! SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nerello
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months stainless steel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Storage potential: 2029+
- Closure: Diam
- Total extract: 29,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,79 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,35 g/l
- Sulfite: 84 mg/l
- pH value: 3,36
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Sole di Sesta” Syrah Sicilia DOC 2019
Sun-kissed Syrah from Etna, with an aroma of dark berries and a pleasant spicy note. The flavour is mineral and has a complex structure. An elegant wine with a harmonious final. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Syrah
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 14 months small oak barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Storage potential: 2032+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 30,18 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,48 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,89 g/l
- Sulfite: 85 mg/l
- pH value: 3,61
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned19232619 · 0,75 l · 38,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
“Calderara” Bianco Etna DOC 2022
Proud single-vineyard Sicilian in a small edition made from 100% Carricante. Fine bouquet of citrus fruits and apricots. Wonderfully juicy fruit on the palate paired with good structure, balanced acidity, fine minerality and appealing length. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Carricante
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 12 months 40/60 oak barrels/cement tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2029+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 22,70 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,32 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,22 g/l
- Sulfite: 77 mg/l
- pH value: 3,39
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Contrada Feudo di Mezzo” Rosso Etna DOC 2019
Wonderful single-vineyard Nerello from the north side of Etna at an altitude of 750 metres. Cherry and small wild strawberries on the nose. Very clearly accentuated and fresh flavour, acidity and tannin in perfect harmony and well integrated. Long finish with impressive elegance and freshness. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nerello
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 15 months tonneau/15 months bottle
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Storage potential: 2032+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,61 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,41 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,45 g/l
- Sulfite: 85 mg/l
- pH value: 3,41
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Contrada Zottorinoto” Rosso Riserva Etna DOC 2019
Only around 2,000 bottles of this noble Riserva are filled each year. With a rich aroma of black berries, balsamic nuances and spices as well as an expansive flavour - full and clear - this great wine perfectly combines finesse, elegance and softness. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nerello
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months large wooden barrel/24 months bottle ageing
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2036+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,15 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,47 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,45 g/l
- Sulfite: 85 mg/l
- pH value: 3,48
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned19232219 · 0,75 l · 132,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available

"The ladies from the mountain." could be called this winegrower portrait, because it is actually a well-rehearsed team of 25 women, who do the manual work here at Cottanera. Because up here in the vineyards you have to do almost everything by hand. Up here? Imagine that you are now a steep narrow road with many curves, even serpentines, high in second gear and park about 700 meters high above the sea, which only 30 kilometers as the crow flies reflects the sun in the east. Black earth, a permanent breeze, which carries a fine herb spice with itself, in between the freshly combed green of the vine rows. Now Etna rises before you. 3,350 metres high, snow-covered for most of the year - you can also ski here until April. But that's not why we're here.
The visionaries: At the beginning of the 1990s, viticulture was almost extinct here. It's too much work. While in the south of Sicily, in flatter plains, vineyards to be cultivated by machine are the boom of the Nero d'Avola, most of the wine-growing stopped here in the north. Too much manual work caused too high costs. The area was small structured, most winegrowers owned perhaps one or two hectares. And these were Albarello cultures, an ancient form of wine education that looks like small trees with thick gnarled trunks, because these cultures were often up to one hundred years old. Uneconomical and also grape varieties that nobody knew and wanted to know. Because it was the time of international varieties. Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah were the fashion in Sicily.
It was at this time that Giulielmo Cambria convinced his then 60-year-old father Francesco and his brother Enzo to set up a winery here together. The rest is a local, then an international success story. From wilderness and some hazelnut plantations they formed vineyards. Today it's almost 70 hectares. In the beginning the international varieties like Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and Viognier dominated. Soon the Cambria brothers, however, began to think about the old local varieties and planted the white Inzolia and Carricante, as well as the red Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio. That was more than courageous at the time - and in the village Osteria the brothers were soon declared crazy behind closed doors.
Meanwhile, the elegant and volcanic-mineral wines of Etna are sought-after specialties among wine lovers that are hard to find because there are so few of them. All wines from Cottanera are characterised by a fine, typical spice, which can only be created here, in addition to wonderful fruit, delicate structure and elegance. Great wines from the volcano. SUPERIORE.DE
Facts
- Year of foundation: 2000
- Owner: Enzo Cambria and the "third generation"Mariangela, Francesco and Emanuele.
- Oenologists: Fabrizio Fiorini, Lorenzo Landi and Mario Ronco (consultant)
- Annual production: approx. 350,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 65 hectares
- Natural cultivation