Regional Institute of Wine and Oil

CORRECTION DECREE OF THE DM 01/19/2022 AMENDING THE ETNA DOC SPECIFICATIONS

With reference to our previous notice dated 11/02 last “ORDINARY AMENDMENTS TO THE “ETNA” DOC WINES REGULATIONS, we inform you that a rectification decree to the aforementioned Ministerial Decree relating to some typos contained thereinthe.

In fact, in the art. 1, paragraph 2 relating to the reference to the production area of the grapes of the type "was skipped".Upper white Etna", while in article 6, relating to the chemical-physical and organoleptic characteristics of the consumption of the various types, as regards the descriptor of the minimum total acidity of the "Etna Bianco Superiore" the term "minimum”. Finally, as regards the "Etna sparkling rosé or rosé" in the description of the relative odor the term "sometimes" was omitted, the corrected descriptor becomes: "intense and characteristic, sometimes with floral and spicy notes accompanied by a delicate hint of yeast".