2016 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Prephylloxera "La Vigna di Don Peppino" Calderara Sottana

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  9/14/2023 - Mleh wrote: 92 Points

  First time I tried the prephylloxera version of this wine. I love their other wines and had very high expectations based on the reviews. I tasted it over two days, decanting on day one and drinking slowly over four hours. It was very tannic to start, but the tannins softened nicely after a couple hours. Aromas of red fruit and herbs, flavors more herbaceous than fruit. Nice acidity. After three hours in the decanter I enjoyed this with some quite fatty roast lamb but it didn't blow my socks off and I got more Barolo than the Burgundy I was expecting. Not a bad thing at all. There was a lot of minerality, stone and it was very dry. On day two however, I definitely got the Burgundy I was expecting. Tannins ware much more resolved, the wine was softer with really nice acidity. Red fruits, raspberries and strawberries. Less herbaceous and less minerality than day one. It even had some tart cherry on the finish. My conclusion from this is that I should wait several years before opening the last bottle of 2016 I have, and even longer for the 2020s I just bought.

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  6/7/2022 - vintage_whine wrote:

  Red cherry cough syrup, greennsappybkotes, long mineral mid palate with tension, building tannins. No oak to bolster this wine, and it doesn’t need it. This wine has all the stuff of the greatest reds, tannins are building but fine, you can drink it now and wonder how great it will be in 10 years

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  3/15/2022 - mag.ehrnrooth@gmail.com Likes this wine: 96 Points

  An excellent Etna wine, very pleasant, smooth and elegant….

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  2/12/2022 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 93 Points

  2021 Martinborough weekend with Kai, Marion and friends (Wairarapa, NZ): Served blind to me with the de Vogüé. I was interested to see if tasters would pick the Etna Rosso as not pinot noir. No one suggested this wine was anything other than pinot noir although, tasting it, I was pretty confident it was my wine. Expressive on the nose, with notes of red currant, soil, red cherry, dried herbs, garrigue and crushed volcanic rock. On entry to the palate, ultra-fine grained, but tactile, tannins. Earthy, with rocky minerality. Seriously structured. Red cherries and red currants, largely red fruited. More open textured than the Burgundies. High quality, yet young. Optimally, hold until at least 2025 – 2027, when I may well score it higher.

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  12/25/2021 - anderegg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drank with porchetta at Christmas dinner. Delicious. Fruit and tart. Liked by all.

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