I’m personally disappointed I don’t have anywhere near the breadth of tasting experience of Etna wines I want. I’m working on it! Meanwhile, for what it’s worth, the Girolamo Russo wines are my favorite... Read More
Organic/Bio Russo’s Calderara Sottana is more red-fruited and open/fleshy than the darker, more intense, San Lorenzo. But there’s still plenty of intensity to the perfume and flavors and grip on the long, minerally,... 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/Bio Former concert pianist Girolamo Russo started this winery on the slopes of Mt. Etna in 2005. He farms his scattered plots of Nerello Mascalese organically, including his 8 hectare holding in one of Etna's most... Read More
Organic/Bio At just 1,800 feet elevation, the lowest of Passopisciaro’s Contrada vines grow on the last edges of Mount Etna lava. The vines push through the lava to limestone and develop more rich, round, textures than the... Read More
Organic/BioOnly available as part of the Passopisciaro Etna Six-Pack. Ok, I blew it and didn't buy enough of this because, tasting it in May on the slopes of Etna, it was closed and the fruit was hiding. Contrada Rampante... Read More
Organic/Bio Marc de Grazia says Bocca d'Orzo, like San Lorenzo next door, has always been esteemed as one of the most important Contradas of Etna. But only by old-timers, as the entire vineyard was covered by a lava flow in... Read More
Organic/Bio Just as in the rest of Europe, when phylloxera came to Sicily in the early 20th Century it devastated most of the region's vineyards. But two small plots of Nerello Mascalese on Mount Etna's steep slopes survived,... Read More
Organic/Bio Marc de Grazia has designed San Lorenzo one of his three Grande Terroir Ellittico wines, so designated because of their very rare and pure volcanic sand soils from the Ellittico eruptions dating from 15,000 to 60,000... Read More
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