{"id":53879,"date":"2022-12-14T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/literary-wines-as-works-of-art-from-al-cantaras-limited-edition-2022-collection\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:53:35","slug":"al-cantaras-limited-edition-2022-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/al-cantaras-limited-edition-2022-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Wines as Works of Art from Al-Cant\u00e0ra\u2019s Limited Edition 2022 Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>With a red wine of pure <strong>Nerello Mascalese dedicated to Luigi Pirandello and an Etna Bianco Doc in homage to the somewhat -unknown 16th-century Sicilian poet Antonio Veneziano<\/strong>, Al-Cant\u00e0ra winery, Pucci Giuffrida&#8217;s winery in contrada Feudo Santa Anastasia located in Randazzo, Etna, continues the project of collectible wines begun with the red wine &#8220;Liol\u00e0-Ullarall\u00e0,&#8221; &#8211; a name that also referenced a citation from the playwright from Girgenti who won the Nobel Prize for literature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Al-Cant\u00e0ra\u2019s Legendary Nerello Mascalese<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these labels have been released right at the end of 2022. The first is the red wine &#8220;<strong>Pensaci, Giacuminu!\u00ae<\/strong>,&#8221; made from 2018 Nerello Mascalese grapes, Etna&#8217;s native vine, which rests in Etna chestnut tonneaux before being <strong>bottled in<\/strong> <strong>1,400 pieces<\/strong> &#8211; a procedure that responds to the desire for experimentation and innovation of producer Giuffrida, assisted by oenologist Salvo Rizzuto, to test the properties of aging in small chestnut barrels, an essence naturally rich in tannin, which today are produced only in Marsala with wood from Etna&#8217;s coppice forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n                <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n                    \r\n                    #tdi_1  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item1 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                <\/style>\r\n\r\n                <div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"td-gallery td-slide-on-2-columns\">\r\n                    <div class=\"post_td_gallery\">\r\n                        <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-top\">\r\n                           <div class=\"td-gallery-title\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"td-gallery-controls-wrapper\">\r\n                                <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-count\"><span class=\"td-gallery-slide-item-focus\">1<\/span> of 2<\/div>\r\n                                <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-prev-next-but\">\r\n                                    <i class = \"td-icon-left doubleSliderPrevButton\"><\/i>\r\n                                    <i class = \"td-icon-right doubleSliderNextButton\"><\/i>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <div class = \"td-doubleSlider-1 \">\r\n                            <div class = \"td-slider\">\r\n                                \r\n                    <div class = \"td-slide-item td-item1\">\r\n                        <figure class=\"td-slide-galery-figure td-slide-popup-gallery\">\r\n                            <a class=\"slide-gallery-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza.jpg\" title=\"Al-Cant\u00e0ra_Rajiu di bellicza\"  data-caption=\"Al-Cant\u00e0ra_Rajiu di bellicza\"  data-description=\"\">\r\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza.jpg 1135w, https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza-581x1024.jpg 581w, https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza-768x1353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza-872x1536.jpg 872w, https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Al-Cantara_Rajiu-di-bellicza-696x1226.jpg 696w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1135px) 100vw, 1135px\" alt=\"Al-Cant&agrave;ra_Rajiu di bellicza\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1135px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1135\/2000;\">\r\n                            <\/a>\r\n                            <figcaption class = \"td-slide-caption td-gallery-slide-content\"><div class = \"td-gallery-slide-copywrite\">Al-Cant\u00e0ra_Rajiu di bellicza<\/div><\/figcaption>\r\n                        <\/figure>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <div class = \"td-doubleSlider-2\">\r\n                            <div class = \"td-slider\">\r\n                                \r\n                    <div class = \"td-button td-item1\">\r\n                        <div class = \"td-border\"><\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                \n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&nbsp;Al-Cant\u00e0ra Poetic Carricante<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The second <a href=\"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/noto-2020-wine-spectators-top-100-best-wines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">label <\/a>is also aimed at an audience of collectors and connoisseurs of northern Etna vintages; and this one too is designed and hand-watercolored by artist Annachiara Di Pietro, the artist who has been taking care of the image of the of Al-Cant\u00e0ra\u2019s products for a few years now. It is &#8220;<strong>Raiju di Bellicza\u00ae<\/strong>,&#8221; Etna Bianco Doc from Carricante grapes from the 2021 vintage. Grapes with natural longevity that make it <strong>a wine destined for bottle aging of six to eight years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pucci Giuffrida, the Literary Vigneron<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The name evokes a line from a collection of unpublished poems by Sicilian Antonio Veneziano, of which Giuffrida, <strong>a vigneron with a passion for literature and theater<\/strong>, came into possession a few years ago by participating in an auction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A late 16th-century manuscript,&#8221; explains Pucci Giuffrida, &#8220;that I had purchased, <strong>intrigued by this curious and unknown anthology of poems by Sicilian authors<\/strong>. Upon closer analysis, commissioned from scholars at the University of Palermo, some octaves of these verses, absolutely unpublished, are attributed with certainty to the Palermitan poet Veneziano, considered in academic circles as a sort of &#8220;Petrarch of Sicily&#8221;: a rebellious and adventurous artist, with a reputation as a ladies&#8217; man and feared by the powerful whose mockery he made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labeled a &#8220;cursed artist,&#8221; he became <strong>a close friend of Don Quixote&#8217;s father, Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes<\/strong>. Today Veneziano is still little studied: my wish is to be able to contribute to his re-evaluation starting from this curious episode I have come across since I started making wines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Collectible Winesin Watercolor by Annachiara Di Pietro<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Cant\u00e0ra&#8217;s Raiju is also in <strong>a limited edition: 1399 labels<\/strong> finished in watercolor by Annachiara Di Pietro that bear on the back the octave from which the title was extrapolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-cantara.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.al-cantara.it\">Al-Cant\u00e0ra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a red wine of pure Nerello Mascalese dedicated to Luigi Pirandello and an Etna Bianco Doc in homage to the somewhat -unknown 16th-century Sicilian poet Antonio Veneziano, Al-Cant\u00e0ra winery, Pucci Giuffrida&#8217;s winery in contrada Feudo Santa Anastasia located in Randazzo, Etna, continues the project of collectible wines begun with the red wine &#8220;Liol\u00e0-Ullarall\u00e0,&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15650,15651],"tags":[20627,20626,20628],"class_list":{"0":"post-53879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-wine-en","8":"category-in-vino-veritas-en","9":"tag-collectiblewines","10":"tag-etnawine-en","11":"tag-sicilianwine-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}