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IDDAThe 2017 Etna Rosso is almost all Nerello Mascalese with a small 10% part of Nerello Cappuccio that makes for an ideal blending partner. This was a scorching hot vintage, but Gaia Gaja and Alberto Graci tell me that compact basalt rocky soils make for a unique situation in which vine root systems can find ample humidity underground despite dry and sun drenched soil at the top level. Dig just under the surface, Gaia Gaja tells me, and the soils are

Drink from 2022-2026

it still is loaded with succulent fruit

honeysuckle and dried apricot

A superb chenin

833 cases made

along with a hint of exotic spices that builds steadily in the glass

(88-90)/2022+

peking duck and dark spice tones are followed by a wine of impressive textural refinement and deep

Here the slightly less elegant and more deeply pitched nose offers up an attractively fresh and well-layered array of cherry

structured age-worthy wine that should last at least 25-40 years

dark cherries and licorice if it tried

Like the Masures the nose is quite restrained and only reluctantly reveals notes of cool citrus and more elegant white fleshed fruit and petrol aromas