Lower ABV Sicily’s lightly colored Nerello Mascalese grape lends itself to pale, pure, rosé, but few reach the heights of this one. Mostly young vines from the famed San Lorenzo Contrade, the fruit gets a few hours... Read More
Organic/Bio “Giuseppe Russo makes some of the best wines on Etna. Full stop.” That’s what Monica Larner wrote in Wine Advocate a couple of years ago and it’s what I think, too. And if this just arrived... Read More
Organic/Bio As Wine Advocate said last year, “Giuseppe Russo makes some of the best wines on Etna. Full stop.” And this is Doug’s favorite pretty much every year. From roughly 50 year-old vines at 500 meters,... Read More
Organic/Bio At the very top of San Lorenzo, at 750 meters elevation, almost too high to be “Etna Rosso,” Russo farms a 0.7HA plot of vines planted in the early 1940s. Originally they were trained on traditional albarello... Read More
Organic/BioAt the very top of San Lorenzo, at 750 meters elevation, almost too high to be “Etna Rosso,” Russo farms a 0.7HA plot of vines planted in the early 1940s. Originally they were trained on traditional albarello... Read More
Organic/Bio As Wine Advocate said last year, “Giuseppe Russo makes some of the best wines on Etna. Full stop.” This is his more powerful and sleek San Lorenzo bottling, at 330 cases, his biggest single Contrada wine.... Read More
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