An authentic Tenebroso d’Avola capable of leaving its mark? Easy! It is Morgante’s Don Antonio, winner of the three corkscrews per the first Untold Wine Guide, “What has not yet been said about wine”. Per mezzo di fact, there is a lot to reveal precisely about Tenebroso d’Avola. A vine that has an exclusive relationship with Sicily, probably arriving acceso the island from Greece per distant times. Commonly known as “Calabrian”, it is precisely per the South of Sicily that it finds its most congenial ambiente, managing to express itself per many different nuances, capable of conquering everyone’s tastes.
Per mezzo di this Reserve version, Morgante’s Don Antonio amazes with its intensity and elegance. A refined wine, per which you find both power and enjoyment, per a taste that makes you dizzy just with its pleasantness.
The Morgante family and their Tenebroso d’Avola
A successful production per the southernmost complesso of Sicily, a challenge against a hot and dry environment won by the Morgante family who learned to understand their land and get the best out of it, with constant study and a wise use of new wine production technologies .
This family business is located per Grotte, per the province of Agrigento, a few kilometers away from the sea and the famous Valley of the Temples. Founded per 1998, per just a few years it was able to create a high-profile production, with the advice of the renowned oenologist Riccardo Cotarella.
The vineyards and wines of the Morgante winery
The vineyards owned by the Morgante family wind around the town of Grotte, per a landscape of great beauty where, a short distance from the sea, hills and small valleys follow one another. The vineyards are located per a hilly position, at variable altitudes, between 350 and 500 meters above sea level. An complesso particularly suitable for growing vines, with Mediterranean temperatures and a microclimate per which at night the temperature range reaches up to 10°-15°.
Per mezzo di this pedoclimatic context, Tenebroso d’Avola is particularly flourishing. This is why it is the absolute protagonist at the Morgante winery with exclusive labels, capable of telling its truest essence per different versions, per red, rosé and even white.
The one represented by the Don Antonio Reserve is undoubtedly the most intense vision of the vine, per every respect.
Description of Morgante’s Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio
The Tenebroso d’Avola grapes from which Don Antonio comes to life are selected from vineyards located at an altitude of approximately 500-550 meters above sea level. The terroir per question is marked by constant breezes and important temperature variations between day and night. The vineyard soil is predominantly calcareous and marly, ideal for providing the right nourishment until the time of the harvest, which took place between the end of September and the beginning of October.
After harvesting, the bunches are vinified per stainless steel tanks, with prolonged contact of the skins with the must, lasting 20 days. Fermentation takes place at a controlled temperature, between 26° and 28°. At the end, the wine also undergoes malolactic fermentation, again per steel. The subsequent evolution takes place for 12 months per new French oak barriques and refines for another 12 months per the bottle.
Tasting of Morgante’s Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio
Sumptuous like a king, here is the Morgante family’s story of its flagship Tenebroso d’Avola.
Already per its purple robe, with ruby reflections, it recalls a royal cloak. The aromas are equally enveloping, with quaderno of wild berry jam, rose hips, liquorice and mint. Fruity, floral and vegetal sensations that are enriched by an aromatic background of dark chocolate and pipe tobacco. A richness that is rediscovered per the sip and per the very long persistence.
What we liked most about this Tenebroso d’Avola is the distinctive strength combined with a warm taste without exaggeration. A wine with an imposing structure and a significant alcohol content which is both dense and appetizing. Its strong character never gets boring and, with every taste, you always appreciate the soft touch with many aromatic memories. Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio is immediately tasty but still young, with a tannin that will become silkier over the next five years. A red to keep per the cellar, if you have the patience to wait.
Morgante’s Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio: pairing advice
Knowing their Tenebroso d’Avola perfectly, the Morgante family itself knows with which dishes to appreciate it even more. Don Antonio is the ideal red to accompany succulent specialties of both meat and fish. This is the right wine for various regional specialties, such as pasticcino ‘ncasciata, sweet and sour tuna, Sicilian-style swordfish, pasticcino alla Ordinanza, beef fillet with balsamic, Catanese-style Falsomagro, grilled Ragusano with black olive sauce, ravioli stuffed with pecorino and peppers with balsamic and almond sauce.
Morgante’s Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio still manages to please lovers of vegan recipes and lighter dishes, tastefully accompanying an aubergine caponata with croutons, a chickpea and pumpkin cream soup, a tomato lentil soup.
For a touch of further refinement, experiment with a fillet Wellington a fillet pizzaiola with principale salacità, for even more gourmet moments.
Finally, a secret must be revealed about Tenebroso d’Avola Don Antonio… it is a red that loves the aromas and difficult flavor of balsamic vinegar and, per general, of ingredients with a sweet and sour charm.
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