Etna Rosso, Guardiola
Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Etna Rosso, Guardiola


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2021
75cl
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£39.20

2021
6x75cl
DP
£235.22


Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso, Guardiola, 2021

2021

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso, Guardiola, 2021

The highest vineyard in the reds at 900-1000m and on the limit of the DOC. Guardiala tends to show more austerity in youth. Cooler, wilder blue fruits with real snap and bite, as it opens up it is less earthy than it can be, rather more precise in fact. Plums and currants and rosemary intermingle with fynbos, mint, wisps of camphor and licorice. There is a more tannic finish here compared to the others but for that they are highly finessed. The soils here are leaner and more impoverished, with a higher proportion of gravel and volcanic sand.

ABV:
14.5%
93.5/100
Eric Guido, Vinous

Depths of black cherry, clove, sage, rosemary and ashen stone make resisting the 2021 ??Etna Rosso Guardiola impossible. This is an especially lifted and mineral effort, with crisp raspberry and cranberry fruits that take on a crunchy sensation as they travel across the palate. Vibrant acidity maintains a lovely balance, cutting through the 2021’s silken textures like a hot knife through butter. This tapers off long, sinewy and structured, and yet the mouth is left watering for more.
Date Reviewed:
09/2023

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Italy

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Sicily

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Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Tenuta delle Terre Nere is a benchmark Etna estate owned by the experienced wine afficionado Marco de Grazia. Its first commercial vintage was 2002, making it one of the region’s foremost pioneers. Starting off with one parcel of old goblet vines in the Vigneto Guardiola, Marco has now increased his holdings to numerous parcels including the Santo Spirito, Guardiola, San Lorenzo and Calderara vineyards. The principal variety grown on the estate is Nerello Mascalese, which is indigenous to the Etna. Its fabulous old bush vines, the majority of which are pre-Phylloxera, are planted on the rocky and sandy volcanic soils on the north face of Mount Etna at 800 to 900 metres above sea level. The wines are aged in barrels of varying sizes with a small proportion of new oak (rarely more than 20%) for 18 months. Unique, perfumed and spicy these are some of the region’s most complete and distinguished examples. Their floral aromas and lifted fruit coupled with gripping, structuring tannins means these are well balanced wines built to last. Authentic, pretty and ethereal yet offering firm backbones they are an intriguing yin-yang style of wine you won't forget in a hurry.

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