Hekate
Hekate
Pairings: being a dessert and a meditation wine, it gives its best with oven-baked sewwts, but it is also an intruguing match for semi-haed cheeses and tropical fruits.
Vinification
The late-harvest variety is ready for picking between the end of August and the first week of September. It prefers mainly sandy soils and long exposure to sunlight.
Vinification is carried out in two phases: the first phase consists of selecting aromatic varieties (Viognier, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Semillon) that will generate a dry and highly alcoholic wine (16% abv) called “base wine”. In the meantime, the Moscato di Alessandria grapes are harvested and hung up on the vine rows to dry naturally in the hot Sicilian sun. When they are dry, these delicate Moscato grapes are steeped in the base wine for a while. This way, the raisins start transferring all of their aromatic potential and great sweetness. Once rehydrated, the base wine/Moscato grapes mixture is pressed to produce a liquid that is very dense and with abundant deposit. This is when the natural decanting period starts, lasting several months at a low temperature. The resulting wine is filtered, stabilised, bottled and then aged in the bottle for some months before it is sold.
