Sciacca

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The production zone covers the municipal territories of Sciacca and Caltabellotta, with a total land area of 31,352 hectares and a planted vineyard area of 3,160 hectares.
• The territory is defined to the north by the Sicani mountain range and by a system of valleys with varying aspects that extend toward the coastline.
• The soils of the delimited geographical area are quite heterogeneous, encompassing alluvial plains and terraces, marine terraces, and clayey hill formations.
• Carbonatic hill and mountain formations are present, composed of limestones, dolomitic limestones, and dolomites, alongside hill formations with outcroppings from the gypsum-sulfur belt.
• The climate of the zone is classified as maritime Mediterranean, with rainfall concentrated mainly in the autumn–winter period, sparse in spring, and almost absent in summer.

• In 1966, viticulture spread widely across the Sciacca DOC territory, with arable land and almond orchards converted to vineyards as grapes offered greater economic returns.
• From 1970 onwards there was a considerable expansion of viticulture, to the point that 45,000 quintals of grapes were delivered to the Cantina Sociale Enocarboj, yielding a production of 33,000 hectolitres of wine.
• In 1971 the Consorzio Enologico Agrigentino Kronion was established in Sciacca, bringing together ten cooperative wineries from the province of Agrigento to coordinate the marketing and processing of wines.

• The wines of the appellation display pleasant, harmonious, characteristic, and elegant aromas, with possible fruity, floral, and vegetal notes typical of the source grape varieties.
• All wines present balanced physicochemical characteristics that contribute to their overall balance on the palate.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0800
• Official trade body site — Assovini Sicilia