Eduardo Torres Acosta
Eduardo Torres Acosta's career started as young a young child working with his father’s small plot of vines on the Canary Islands. Acosta's passion for winemaking brought him to Sicily in 2012, interning at Arianna Occhipinti, and then to Etna, where he became the enologist at Passopisciaro. With time, Acosta was able to acquire a number of rented parcels on the north slope of Etna, and up until 2017, he continued to make his wines at the Arianna Occhipinti winery. Today, Eduardo Torres Acosta is truly a garagiste, now making his wines in a garage on Etna from 4.5 hectares split up between eight parcels. The flagship of the portfolio is the Versante Nord, both red and white, which both depend on field blends of local varieties that are partly destemmed and co-fermented spontaneously, without sulfur or temperature control, in concrete tanks. Aging takes place in a combination of concrete tanks and old barriques. You may notice that the wines continue to be labeled with the Terre Siciliane IGT, a throwback to a time when they were made at the Arianna Occhipinti winery, which also permits him freedom to use field blends, such as the Quota N. All of that said, this was a fun and very unique set of wines to taste through. The entire time, I kept finding myself thinking about many of the new projects popping up in Gredos or the Canary Islands, and that was before realizing Eduardo Torres Acosta’s roots. While I didn’t find the 2018 Versante Nord Rosso to be as compelling as the rest of the lineup, I think it’s more about the vintage character than the wine itself.
From Sicily: The Island Nation (Jun 2021) by Eric Guido
2019 Uve Bianche Versante Nord
Release Price: $35
Color: White
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2019 Quota N
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Color: Red
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2018 Versante Nord
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2017 Pirrera
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Color: Red
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