Girolamo Russo Etna Rosso A Rina 2021

Dusty aromas of licorice, herbs and pepper. Then fine-grained and smooth, offering flavours of musky plum, minerals, earth and flint. Finishes saline and long, but youthfully chewy tannins.

"Set on the north slope of the mountain, at an altitude of 650-780 metres above sea-level, the winery’s vineyards cover 18 hectares, surrounded by hazelnut and olive groves. Re-established by Giuseppe Russo in 2005, and dedicated to the memory of his father Girolamo, the winery is a powerful expression of Giuseppe’s desire to respect and conserve his family’s traditional values, but interpreting those values in a new and personal way, introducing and developing new approaches to winemaking, but remaining in the village of his birth, Passopisciaro – the centre of the recent renaissance in the great red wines of Etna."