Sicily
Where once Sicilian wine meant Marsala, nowadays Sicily is quite a popular source of good table wine. It’s a long way south, but the heat of the Mediterranean is tempered by the altitude in central Sicily, particularly around Mount Etna.
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2019 NERO D'AVOLA Rosso Le Casematte
IGP Terre Sicilliane Sicily Italy 14% Red
Nero d'Avola.
This is a lighter bodied style with a lighter crimson hue to match. Lovely intensity of strawberry, cherry and raspberry fruit, the palate has a gentle extraction of ripe acid, that underpins a succulent fruitiness, roun...(read more)
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2017 MOFETE ETNA ROSSO Palmento Costanzo
Etna Sicily Italy Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappucio.
These wines are so distinct and bear the hallmark of their volcanic origin so beautifully. Crackling with energy and zip, the fruits are on the redder spectrum, bilberry, cherry and raspberry, undercut with a mineral int...(read more)
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2018 FARO Rosso DOC Le Casematte
IGP Terre Sicilliane Sicily Italy Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nocera, Nero d’Avola, Nerello Cappucio.

2016 NERO DI SEI ETNA ROSSO Palmento Costanzo
Etna Sicily Italy Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappucio.
80% Nerello Mascalese with 20% Nerello Cappuccio, from vines high up on Etna between 30 and 120 years old. Aged in large oak foudres. Ruby red, with intense fruit as and mineral notes finished with velvet-smooth tannins.
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2015 CONTRADA SANTO SPIRITO Palmento Costanzo
Etna Sicily Italy 14% Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappucio. Organic
Enticing nose with a rich, weight of fruit. Warm red berries and some darker leafier elements create very charming aromatics. This follows to the palate on the attack, but then the pure feel builds intensity quickly. Del...(read more)
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2016 CONTRADA SANTO SPIRITO '466' Palmento Costanzo
Etna Sicily Italy 13.5% Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappucio. Organic
This is from parcel 466 of the Palmento Costanzo estate and is matured in wooden eggs for 24 months prior to bottling. Sleek and concentrated dark fleshy fruit, herbs, aniseed, cherry and wild strawberry. In the mouth th...(read more)
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2016 ETNA ROSSO IGT SICILIA Alberelli di Giodo
Sicily Italy 14% Red
Nerello Mascalese.
Just bottled - and already so perfumed and joyous. Lovely, gentle nose. Really pretty, lovely floral lift and then more leafy and a whiff of dried herbs. Palate is deep and intense. Firmish feel - deep, dark fruit - but...(read more)
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2016 PREFILLOSSERA Palmento Costanzo
Etna Sicily Italy 14% Red
Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappucio. Organic
Delicate rose notes over the dense maraschino cherry fruit, with subtle nuttiness of oak, chilli spice and a leafiness suggesting some stems in the ferment. Ripe maraschino, spice and stones, with compact, firm tannins t...(read more)
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