Eloro

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Hot-arid Mediterranean climate: average temperature 17.6 °C, among the highest in Sicily, with peak maxima in July and August.
• Annual rainfall is very low at 300–400 mm, with scarce summer precipitation and irrigation prohibited in the vineyard.
• Predominantly flat to gently hilly terrain, between 0 and 300 m above sea level, in the southeasternmost tip of Sicily.

• The appellation takes its name from a Corinthian Greek city founded in the 7th century BC at the mouth of the river Tellaro; Pachino (1760) derives from the Greek «pachis» (abundant) and «oinos» (wine).

• Calcareous brown, clayey, and Mediterranean red soils under a hot-arid Mediterranean climate (average 17.6 °C, 300–400 mm/year) shape the character of Eloro wines.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0778
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Vini Valdinoto (c/o Assovini Sicilia)