WINEMAKER'S NOTES:
Etna red aged born in centenarian vineyards in Calderara Sottana e Taccione (Randazzo). Short maceration time in low dimension steel barrel. Features: high acidity, elegance, tannic structure. It aged for long time in big Slavonian oak barrel. Dedicated to the great Etna tradition.
TASTING NOTES:
The 2015 Nerello Mascalese Vigne Vecchie is simply stunning, erupting from the glass with a burst of crushed black cherries, cloves, blood orange and hints of dusty earth. This is soft-textured, nearly fleshy in feel, with a core of tart red berry fruits offset by sour citrus as rosy inner florals form toward the close. It finishes with staining length and concentration, just lightly structured, leaving a sensation of hard red candies to fade. This is a vibrant vintage of Vigne Vecchie, but it possesses the balance for further evolution.
- Vinous, 93 pts.
