2010 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso Guardiola

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  4/7/2023 - Puteljen! Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Some time in the cellar has brought this wine almost to the next level. Now quite complex with pine, paintbox, cedar, cherries, rosemary, sage, sloanberries etc. i can go on. An impression of a warm garden in a conifer forest. Good lenght, well balanced, elegant without any rough edges. There is tannin but just enough to give some support and structure. Maybe hints of smoke but a lot less than I remember from its youth. Drinking very well now and will probably hold for another 10+ years without problems. Decanted for about 60 minutes, drunk over another 90.

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  7/19/2022 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Good color. Reticent nose. Tight. Dark red fruit - not much else. In contrast great attack on entry - acid in particular in very evident driving the palate forward. Grippy tannin - drying the gums. But also beautifully cool ripe red fruit with some complexity. Pure. Quite primary still. Medium weight. Today - with almost no air - the structural elements hold sway. Consistent with the notes of others below, I suggest a very long decant or wait five or ten years. Will surely be very good. Serious wine for the price point. Bought on release. Hold.

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  4/21/2020 - aChave Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Clear dark red color. Tight on opening, with just hints of dark fruit. After an hour in the decanter developed dark cherry and a bit of smokey complexity. After 2 hours the lighter red fruits emerged. Middle weight, nice acidity, some tannic structure beneath. Good complexity on the finish. A fine food accompaniment when looking for a lighter weight red with good fruit and a clean mouth feel.

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  3/31/2020 - PaulusLoZebra Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Terre Nere’s 2010 Etna Rosso Guardiola at age ten has a transparent ruby color with a darker core, and is just beginning to show some age at the edge. It was decanted and at first was closed tight, with prominent tannins. After 30 minutes a delicious sweetness emerged along with some characteristic Etna aromas, but it did not reach its full elegant self until the end of the evening and was, in fact, better on night two. It is a light-weight wine, but with imposing flavors and structure. If in normal times Etna reds from Nerello Mascalese get compared with Nebbiolo wines from Piemonte, Sangiovese wines from Chianti, and Pinot Noir wines from Burgundy, this wine is definitely Nebbiolo-like. It is austere and structured, with some bright red fruit flavors, lip-smacking acidity, and very prominent tannins. This wine is much more about flavor than aroma, and much more about salinity and minerality than about fruit. It absolutely needs food. As mentioned, even better on night two. Very good QPR.

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  4/22/2017 - Rich S wrote: flawed

  Corked. Bummer

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