Italian Nerello Mascalese

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/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 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

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Serious - and seriously delicious - Etna Rosato from 100% Nero Mascalese and vines 25-40 years old on the north slopes of the volcano. As Vinous says in the 93 point rave, The 2025 Etna Rosato is so impressive,... Read More

Organic/Bio Perhaps the finest vintage ever of this benchmark blend of Nerello from key sites across the north face of Etna. For the first time, Marc de Grazia and team were able to hold this in barrel for around 15 months –... Read More

Organic/Bio With San Lorenzo, one of Terre Nere’s 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 years... Read More

Just as in the rest of Europe, when phylloxera devastated most of the volcano's vineyards when it finally arrived here in the mid-20th Century. But two small plots of Nerello Mascalese on Calderara Sottona's steep slopes... Read More

A beautiful take on Etna's Nerello Mascalese (100% here) and a bargain for a single-contrada red. Leans into Nerello's Nebbiolo-like side with lovely red fruit, lots of perfume, and fine tannins. As Wine Advocate says... Read More