Borgo Guarini’s seductive side
Charme Bianco
IGT Terre Siciliane
Blend of Sicilian native vines
Seductive and vivacious on the palate, it is intense with fruity aromas, with an elegant character and a lively and stimulating balance. Charme Bianco is a white wine appreciated for its sunny freshness which derives from its Borgo Guarini terroir, a location unique in its orographic nature and exposure to the wind. The minerality that distinguishes the estate’s soil is returned in this wine, a blend of native vine varieties produced with an emphasis on lightness, freshness and drinkability. These native white grape vine varieties are harvested before they are fully ripe, giving Charme Bianco a highly satisfying vein of acidity that shines with fragrance and intensity. These elements give life to a wine with a soft structure, ideal for those who undertake to try the elegance of these native Sicilian varieties.
Seductive and vivacious on the palate, it is intense with fruity aromas, with an elegant character and a lively and stimulating balance. Charme Bianco is a white wine appreciated for its sunny freshness which derives from its Borgo Guarini terroir, a location unique in its orographic nature and exposure to the wind.
- Appellation: IGT Sicilia
- Vine: Blend of Sicilian native vines
- Terroir: hilly
- Soil: mid-mixture, mostly sandy
- Exposure: north-east (250 mt. a.s.l)
Production Area
Borgo Guarini
Borgo Guarini is the Firriato estate with the most eclectic patchwork of terroirs. There are three different orders of soil in the 165 hectares of the estate. This richness not only allows the right soil for each different vine variety, but also more than one soil for each individual variety.
Charme Bianco
A vivacious and sophisticated blend of Sicilian native varieties
Its provenance, origin, and the earth in which it shoots and grows are what give this wine its personality. Firriato’s constant endeavour to enhance native vine varieties and their unique characteristics deriving from the different terroirs in which they grow, fully comes to the fore in Charme Bianco. The native white grape vine varieties converge in the lively bead of this wine, bestowing the constant pleasure of their most intense aromas. The grapes are authentic products of their terroirs of origin that have been dedicated to viticulture for thousands of years. In this corner of Sicily, on the Borgo Guarini Estate, important elements for their quality are at work. The constant exposure to the wind coming in off the Mediterranean sea, the clayey soil, and the orographic variability are the contributing factors to the uniqueness of the Sicilian white grape varieties that go to create the blend of Charme Bianco. The aromas are more intense, the fragrances more refined in a wine that unites viticultural tradition with the passion of pleasure.Appellation: IGT Terre Siciliane
CHARME BIANCO
The characteristics of vintages
2022
The temperatures recorded during 2022 showed constant regularity thanks to a mild winter and the absence of frosts during the spring. Winter rains softened the soils and replenished water reserves, while a sunny summer with low humidity levels prevented the spread of major vine diseases, such as downy mildew and powdery mildew.
2021
The 2021 vintage in the Trapani countryside was characterized by a rather regular climatic trend during the budding-flowering phases (from early March to late May) and herbaceous growth of the berries, with mild temperatures and limited rains well distributed during the summer period.
2018
After a winter and a spring with abundant rainfall, summer did not make the thermometers soar and the sugar level was lower than in 2017. September recorded a slight increase in moisture and minimum temperatures compared to last year, but without ever causing particular phytosanitary problems.
2017
Mild winter with appropriate moderate rainfalls and mild spring eased the regular vegetative process of the vines. Fortunately the lacking of precipitations over the springtime and the heat wave of the first part of June did not make plants undergo water stress. Broadly speaking this climate situation brought to a regular vegetative process and vines came to harvest time in extraordinary conditions.
2016
The summer season 2016 has been characterised by mild cimate, few rainfalls without excessive heat. After a winter characterised by few rainfalls, spring season began with cool temperatures lasted over flowering until the months of May and June when spring concluded with some rainfalls.These climatic conditions fostered a great vine life-cycle in the vineyard.
2015
Very complex in terms of weather, the heat and rain Fall 2014 resulted in the appearance of a significantly reduced spontaneous sward and characterized by the presence of species microthermal (those that adapt and grow at low temperatures). In late they turn out to be the most wild and cultivated plants seed. The start of winter was cold, with the strong reduction of sporigen due to the Spring 2014 greatly damp.
2014
It was an unforgettable vintage thanks largely to an almost uniform and very balanced climate, the spring was rightly rainy with cool summer which favoured ripening slow and gradual. There is talk of ” a summer without Scirocco wind”, July is spent without excessive heat. Parallel there were recorded temperature day/night very marked in all companies Firriato which helped the development of aromas and flavours.
2013
The year showed to be fruitful. Either regarding the quantity, and definitely regarding the quality “very interesting wines regarding the aromatic profile” had been obtained. Because of the climate, the harvest lasted till the last week of September. The year 2013 gave a slower harvest and then a gradual maturation.
2012
The year showed to be fruitful. Either regarding the quantity, and definitely regarding the quality “very interesting wines regarding the aromatic profile” had been obtained. Because of the climate, the harvest lasted till the last week of September. The year 2013 gave a slower harvest and then a gradual maturation.
Paired with
Blood Orange and Tuna Salad
Prepare a stew with onion, garlic and oil. When the stew is hot, pop the seafood so that they release their juices. Switch off, and proceed to remove the shells.
