Aphor
Grillo - Sicilia D.O.C.
On the nose, it is fruity and floral, with white peach, mango, and especially grapefruit. The flowers are white like orange blossom and yellow like those of broom.
Pairings
Perfect with pasta with Sicilian fish, excellent with shrimp, sardines, and fish couscous.
Vastedda del Belice cheese, ricotta, Aeolian salad, fish tartare for a pre-dinner.
Grilled red shrimp, sardines “a beccafico” style, Sicilian-style stuffed squid, sardine timbale.
Winemaking
With reduction, it begins with destemming and crushing, followed by a soft pressing with the presence of inert gas and static settling at low temperature.
After inoculation with selected yeasts, the must ferments at a temperature of 17°C – 18°C.
The wine ages in steel tanks, with the fine lees being stirred weekly for 4 months. It then proceeds to bottling.
The Birth of Venus
Aphor denotes the foam from which, it is said, the deity was born from the sea.
A scenario that is transferred onto the label, showing us on one side the sea itself, which in its ending becomes a producer of “fertile” foam, and on the other side the goddess, elegant and statuesque in her beauty and the product of that foam.
