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Vittoria DOC
Vittoria DOC includes red and white wines
produced in a broad area of the Province
of Ragusa and part of the Provinces of
Caltanissetta and Catania. It is a zone with an
ancient history of winemaking, as can be seen
from numerous documents reaching back as
far as the 3rd century B.C. The DOC includes
five typologies: Vittoria rosso, Vittoria Calabrese
(or Nero d’Avola), Vittoria Frappato, Vittoria
Ansonica (or Inzolia or Insolia) and Vittoria
Novello. They are mainly red wines with a red
cherry colour and delicate aromas of redberried
fruit that enhance the sensorial features.
It is a wine that goes well with red and white
meat dishes and highly seasoned hot-flavoured
cheeses. The ideal serving temperature is
16°/20° C. It is best consumed when just
bottled or else conserved for 2-3 years.
In order to exploit fully and
guarantee the production, the
companies in the zone have created
the Consorzio Dop Monti Iblei,
which protects and publicizes
the quality of the oil.
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or grilled), salads, meat (red, roast and
boiled), pasta and light sauces.
This extra-virgin olive oil is produced in a
territory consisting of the Monti Iblei area,
surrounded by the Provinces of Ragusa,
Siracusa and Catania. In this select zone,
olive cultivation is based on traditional
systems, as is revealed by the presence
of thousands of hectares of olive groves
and hundreds of small presses, which use
centrifugal oil-extraction processes, or even
more traditional ones, such as pressure
mechanisms. The extent of the area under
cultivation has led to the birth of scores
of companies bottling the product and
commercializing it with an eye towards
national and foreign markets.
It is an important economic resource for
the territory. The olives are spread over hilly
terrains, or else combined with the other
three crops typical of the Iblei: carobs,
almonds and vines. Sometimes they are
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