Tasting Notes: A great entry into Etna Rosso is the Benanti Etna Rosso: good fruit, silky (yet firm) tannins, and the minerality that Etna is known for. Slightly reticent aromas of red cherry, rosehip, raspberry and minerals.... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Calabretta Nerello Mascalese has strawberry, red cherry and violet aromas and flavors, complicated by hints of fresh ginger, white pepper and lemon peel. A flavorful, mature wine that is deep with notes of... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Carranco Villa dei Baroni Etna Rosso expresses the volcanic personality of its homeland, an intense minerality and acidity, and a very elegant finish with light, silky and savory tannins, accompanied by intense... Read More
Tasting Notes: This incredible wine is a testament to the spirit and toughness of the Biondi family. Ciro Biondi Centenario honors the family's winemaking legacy and commemorates a particularly challenging 2023 vintage, which... Read More
Tasting Notes: Cisterna Fuori’ means ‘outside cistern’ and is a reference to an ancient water cistern in the middle of this vineyard site. This vineyard has been owned by the Biondi family for many centuries... Read More
Tasting Notes: Cisterna Fuori’ means ‘outside cistern’ and is a reference to an ancient water cistern in the middle of this vineyard site. This vineyard has been owned by the Biondi family for many centuries... Read More
Tasting Notes: The ‘San Nicolo’ vineyard is roughly half-a-hectare, and was originally owned by Angelina Biondi, the great aunt of Ciro. She was a fantastic person, died at the age of 99, with a great sense of humor... Read More
Tasting Notes: Vino Rosso Kaos is experimental winemaker Davide Bentivegna’s more traditional take on an Etna Rosso. After a fifteen-day spontaneous fermentation, this blend of Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappucio spends... Read More
Tasting Notes: Vino Rosso Notti Stellate is the crown jewel of Etnella’s boundary-pushing winemaking: Etna Rosso meets Southern Rhone. Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappucio tango with Grenache and Syrah, creating a wine... Read More
Tasting Notes: Simply one of the most drinkable and pure expressions of Mt. Etna wine, the I Vigneri Salvo Foti Etna Rosso shows the bright fruit, supple body and incredible length of a world-class wine. try it with red sauce... Read More
Tasting Notes: Produced from 120-year-old vines, stomped by foot, fermented in vats made of lava stone, the Masseria del Pino has captured Mt. Etna in a bottle. Smoke, wild-berry brambles, spice box and savory minerals with tannins... Read More
Tasting Notes: Just in front of the cellars for Tenuta delle Terre Nere are Calderara Sottana vineyards with two parcels that have 120+ year old vines that survived phylloxera! Intense ruby red in color with mahogany hues. Complex... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Tornatore Etna Rosso is a uniquely rich and focused wine made entirely of the indigenous Nerello Mascalese grape. It expresses itself with aromas of cherry juice and preserves, wild strawberry and a very characteristic... Read More
