mature and ready for the table
characterized by warm and favorable conditions
full in the mouth and yet oddly weightless
the soil here is deep and almost exclusively volcanic ash — no gravel field
and at thirteen years the 2013 — a cold
Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso 'Prephylloxera', 2024 SO021624_Collet mature and ready for theThese are ungrafted vines planted before phylloxera arrived in the 1880s, never grafted onto American rootstock, and now averaging more than 140 years old. The parcel is called La Vigna di Don Peppino: eight tenths of a hectare inside contrada Calderara at 620 meters above Randazzo, on shallow, rock strewn volcanic soil carrying only traces of ash, the vines head trained as alberello and modified alberello, the whole thing yielding about 4,000