Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Etna Rosso, Prephylloxera, 2022

Name: Etna Rosso, Prephylloxera
Brand: Tenuta delle Terre Nere
Price: 389.56 GBP

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2022
3x75cl
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£389.56

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Compared to the effusive nose of the Bocca d'Orzo, this offers something altogether deeper and more brooding. Fuller and more complete, darker fruit, richer a little denser and deeper. Powerful but so silky and suave, long gliding flavours of hedgerow fruit, bramble liqueur, spice and smoke saturate the palate. Long, echoing finish . Two prized parcels totalling 0.8HA within Calderara Sottana stand proud, having withstood the ravages of phylloxera, which arrived to Etna in 1881. Consequently, the vines are at least 140 years old, and on their original rootstocks. A fascinating and highly distinctive wine that carries its unique character and rich mineral intensity with a kind of weightless intensity. Remarkable in every sense. Produced in tiny quantities, it is one of Etna’s icon wines.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

96/100

Eric Guido,

Vinous

Darkly alluring and youthfully backward, the 2022 Etna Rosso Prephylloxera La Vigna di Don Peppino Calderara Sottana smolders up with a blend of sweet spices, dusty violets and ash, giving way to dried black cherries, sage and cloves. This is velvety yet finessed, with a polished wave of ripe red and blue fruit that flows across a juicy stream of acidity. Hints of sour citrus add contrast toward the close. It finishes remarkably fresh and energetic, still tannic but lively, as crunchy tannins resonate and an air of lavender slowly fades. This is an elegant and genuinely harmonious edition of this cuvée. Simply stunning.

drinking window 2026 - 2034

date of review 06/2024

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Specifications

Country:

Italy

Region:

Sicily

Appellation:

Etna

Producer:

Tenuta delle Terre Nere

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Nerello Mascalese

abv:

14%

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.