ageworthy red from a master of whites
producing Rieslings of intensity
founded in 2006 by four young growers to champion organic farming and craft sparkling wine
a lick of pepper and eucalyptus
and the classically styled 2004 has now had two decades to unwind
Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso 'Prephylloxera', 2023 Wasenhaus Weiss 090924 ageworthy red from a masterThese 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