2018 Passopisciaro Passorosso

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 90 points

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  2/14/2024 - One.beat Likes this wine:

  Beautiful Etna Rosso. Slightly horsey in an incorporated, wholistic way. Strawberry, blood orange, tobacco. A bit of chocolate and cinnamon as it opens. Nice acid, nice tannins, yum yum.

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  2/9/2024 - bdcpt Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Nice and well crafted but a bit taut even after 5 years. Doesn’t have the fruit or elegance of a Girolamo Russo or Graci.
  
  Absolutely opens up over time to become less austere. Etna Rosso is definitely a world class wine, right up there with Burgundy and Barolo.

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  12/14/2023 - HettermannWine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A longtime favorite of mine, and it always drinks a little more linear than some of the other Etna big guns like Tere Nere, Benanti, Planeta, etc.
  
  Poured a glass for a friend who typically likes lighter wines but gravitates towards old world meets new world Pinots from SB, Oregon, Hawkes Bay, etc. He enjoyed it, but made multiple comments about how dry and “serious” it was. Made me realize that Etna reds, even for those who enjoy “light and mineral” wines, can be over-powering in their intense and musing dryness. These wines do not play around, even with 5 years of age like this one. Not as much of a crowd pleaser as I always anticipate it will be, but still one of my favorite wines of all time.
  
  Nose: wet gravel, stewed raspberries without sugar added, dry fall air
  
  Palate: underripe red fruit, dry amaro notes, graphite, smoked sea salt
  
  Age: 5 years- drinking well but could easily go 3-4 more years and develop further complexities

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  9/29/2023 - sergio19 wrote: 88 Points

  Not easy vintage. Still closed and young. Little scents of wet grass, cherries, tobacco and chocolate after two hours. Little vanilla notes.
  Very acidity in the mouth, little salty, light tannins but nervous.
  Great potential, ending not very long. Better wait 4/5 years

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  9/1/2023 - Ölprinz Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Schon erstaunlich, diese frische Brise aus dem warmen Sizilien. Duftet zu Beginn vor allem nach allerlei Kräutern und Gewürzen. Mit Luft entfalten sich dann Kirsche, Erdbeere, rote Johannisbeere, umwoben von feinen Rauchschwaden. Am Gaumen rotfruchtig, saftig und enorm mineralisch. Man könnte meinen an Lava zu schlecken. Zudem Pfeffer, Eukalyptus, eine frische Säure und ganz sanfte Tannine. Filigran, leicht und gleichwohl kraftvoll. Finale mit pikant würzigem Abgang. Fein und spannend.

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