Certified-organic Etna Bianco Superiore from 100% Carricante grown as bush vines at 900 m in Contrada Caselle (Milo). Aged 18 months in stainless steel and a further 24 months in bottle; tense, mineral and saline.
Imbris – inspired by the Latin word for rain, paying homage to the unique climate of the vineyard. Crafted exclusively from 100% Carricante grapes nurtured on bush vines at a lofty elevation of 900 meters. After spending 18 months maturing in stainless steel it is given two years of bottle ageing.
Notes on the producer
I Custodi are the keepers, the guardians of Mt. Etna’s vineyards: to guard means to preserve the land, to maintain the traditions and to respect the people. From these values and from the love for a beautiful land, where the vine was brought by man more than two millennia ago, spring the wines of I Custodi, the result of the generosity and the minerality of the warm volcanic soil, the cold of the Muntagna and the sun of Sicily. Healthy vines of all ages, growing densely on ancient dry stone terraces, supported by their stake in chestnut wood, are cultivated in harmony with the environment that surrounds them — only by manual labor and with the help of Ciccio the mule — by I Vigneri, skilfull Etnean winegrowers. Winegrowing as it has always been on Mt. Etna for centuries, without synthetic chemicals, in respect of the people, the landscape and the nature.
