Cavanera Rovo delle Coturnie Etna Rosso DOC - Firriato

A high mountain viticulture immersed in full sunlight. Such a particular mix of conditions that makes Etna viticulture a natural laboratory at the service of excellence. Out of a total of 84 hectares spread over the slopes of the northern quadrant of the volcano, with vineyards exposed on large terraces but also on the sides of ancient lava slopes, Firriato has developed a recovery and enhancement project that is unique in the whole Etna area. A prephylloxera vineyard, an old farmhouse with two seventeenth-century millstones, and vineyards that climb the slopes at variable heights, from 650 to over 950 meters above sea level. The soils, of the order of soils with a concentration of silicon greater than 60%, are exceptionally porous, and the basaltic rocks of the pedological substrate guarantee, with the so-called sponge effect, a constant supply of water to the plants. Here, thanks also to the significant temperature variations between day and night and humidity, the