Atina Cabernet DOC (en)

Description

Cabernet wine of Atina D.O.C. it is produced on a farm in Frosinone. The vine plants from which the grapes are harvested are grown on the land of the same farm.

The Cabernet wine of Atina D.O.C. it comes mainly from the Cabernet grape.
Cabernet Sauvignon has its roots in legend.
There are those who attribute its origins to the Greek wine and grape Kapnios. The Greek denomination Kapnios, “smoked”, from which in Latin vinumumo inveteratum (Pliny, NH XXIII, 40), was also applied to other wines such as a very rustic vine, the carbunica, so called because the grapes on the plant were covered with coal dust to make it mature better (Columella’s carbuncle), which remained in the French tradition until the Middle Ages as vins enfumé.
From here would then derive the ‘vitis caburnica’, hence the “Cabernet”.
Scientific studies, based on genetic analyzes, would also suggest it is the result of the spontaneous crossing, which took place four centuries ago, between Sauvignon blanc (white berried) and Cabernet Franc (red berried).
The only certainty is that the Cabernet Sauvignon vine together with many others of French derivation arrived in the area of ​​Atina, Gallinaro and Sant’Elia Fiumerapido around 1860 and here it took root happily thanks above all to the skills and stubbornness of Pasquale Visocchi who cultivated its vines at the Chiusanova estate in Sant’Elia Fiumerapido not far from the farm land.
Despite the upheavals due to phylloxera and the Second World War, the vine in question knows a new recent season and continues today to amaze at the table for its scents and the unmistakable type of terroir.
It is in this context that the Russo farm operates, proud to produce a wine of which it is rightly proud.
The harvest is manual, the vinification takes advantage of professionalism but above all of passion for one’s work. We are sure that this is the best way to obtain a high quality product.

Cultivation area of ​​Cabernet di Atina D.O.C. More info here

FORM:
Product name: Atina Cabernet D.O.C. – Product Code: V060
Color: more or less intense ruby ​​red.
Bouquet: fruity, herbaceous, characteristic;
Taste: dry, harmonious, herbaceous;
Total alcoholic strength by volume: 13.50% vol .;
Total acidity: 5.00 g / l; minimum net dry extract: 20.00 g / l;
Pairings: rather structured and full-bodied dishes based on both white and red meats and also furred game and served at a temperature of about 18-20 ° C