2023 Eduardo Torres Acosta Viticultore 'Versante Est' Carricante, Terre Siciliane IGT Sicily, Italy Keltis 70% Pinot Blanc

70% Pinot Blanc

Applies home made composts to enrich soil and incorporates Vitiforestry

Harvested in the beginning of September at around 70oe

Fermented and macerated for two to three weeks in open oak vats and chestnut casks

After soft pressing the wine remains on the lees for 11 months in 25-hl Slavonian oak barrels

2023 Eduardo Torres Acosta Viticultore 'Versante Est' Carricante, Terre Siciliane IGT Sicily, Italy Keltis 70% Pinot Blanc90% Carricante 10% other local varieties. 2020 was the first vintage of this bottling, from three parcels averaging 80 years old on the east face or "versante est" of Mt. Etna, Eduardo's first from vines not on the "versante nord" (which lends its name to his main white and red wines). Like many of his vines, these are alberello or bush plantings which he farms organically and harvests by hand. The soils are sandy volcanic ash and the elevation ranges