Sicily Wine

A refined red with a taut well-knit frame of sandy tannins and orange peel acidity structuring flavors of macerated cherry oolong tea leaf and minerally hints of smoke and stone that drive the lingering finish. Drink now through... Read More

The Benanti 2021 Etna Rosso Contrada Cavaliere is punchy and bright with lots of primary fruit that recalls raspberry and redcurrant with a hint of white pepper. This vintage delivers a very clean and immediate quality of fruit... Read More

A lively medium-bodied red appealing for the equilibrium and expression this offers ripe and dried cherry fruit underscored by fresh loamy earth and accented by crushed pine licorice snap and floral notes. Chewy finish. Drink... Read More

A structured white offering rapier-like acidity tightly meshed with flavors of crunchy white peach green almond crushed pine lemon wax and petrol. There's good tension and focus; this should open nicely with short-term cellaring.... Read More

This is the wine that started it all. Benanti's Pietra Marina wine started a quarter century ago and its success is what put Etna—especially its white wines—on the map of the world's best wine territories. The 2019... Read More

The Girolamo Russo 2023 Etna Bianco San Lorenzo is 90% Carricante with 10% Minnella that is aged in tonneaux for one year. The wine opens to a medium golden color and shows an open-knit character with apricot honey and saffron.... Read More

The Girolamo Russo 2021 Etna Rosso Calderara Sottana emerges as one of the finest wines made on Etna in recent years. The bouquet is nuanced and rich with many moving parts which span from red fruits cassis blue flower and campfire... Read More

The Girolamo Russo 2020 Etna Rosso Feudo di Mezzo opens to a hint of salinity or minerality that is specific to this site. Those linear aromas tend to frame a tight core of wild fruit white cherry apricot and mountain flowers... Read More

I tasted this wine before it officially went to market and although it definitely needs more time in bottle I think we are in for something very special. With high-elevation fruit from ancient twisted 100-year-old vines this expression... Read More

The Girolamo Russo 2021 Etna Rosso San Lorenzo is a very exciting wine with so much energy and verve. It opens to lean-bodied concentration with a brilliant ruby shine. The wine shows a long array of wild fruit and tiny berry... Read More

The 2020 Etna Rosso San Lorenzo Piano delle Colombe is a showstopper spicy and exotic with a kaleidoscopic bouquet of cloves allspice dried blood orange cinnamon and crushed wild blueberries. It's succulently ripe in style... Read More

Made with 100% Nerello Mascalese the Girolamo Russo 2021 Etna Rosso San Lorenzo Piano delle Colombe represents a very special selection of fruit from 80-year-old vines from a half-hectare subsection of the excellent San Lorenzo... Read More

A lovely red for a porcini recipe the 2017 Etna Rosso Contrada Pianodario reveals a delicate and silky fiber with a fine embroidery of red fruit cassis smoke tar and pressed flowers. The Tasca take on Etna underlines purity and... Read More

Woodsy spice tar-tinged smoke and medicinal herb notes are an aromatic entry point for this firm savory red joining focused flavors of dehydrated black raspberry and macerated mulberry fruit rose hip and singed orange peel. The... Read More