2023 Giuseppe Cipolla Le Robbe Etna Rosso

2023 Giuseppe Cipolla Le Robbe Etna RossoWe can talk about old vines, and then there's "230 year old vines planted on a steep hillside of rocky soils, consisting of gypsum, halite, calcareous sulfur, and other types of salt deposits from the Messinian period" kind of old vines. Giuseppe Cipolla? He's working with the latter, his family's property in Passofonduto sits about 25 kms from the south coast of central Sicily, a landscape of steep outcrops that was once a source of salt and sulfur.

and a deep mineral core carried by fine tannins

great texture and cut

and they use it to make one of the greatest $20-ish Californian Pinots we know

What I want people who love me to get me for Christmas

Eighth generation winemakers

carbon-negative winery

with a vibrant acidity and an incredibly silky texture on the palate

and the Luna series reflects that philosophy

dusty slate

In doing this intimate work with the land

and a smidge of Mendocino Barbera

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