Community Tasting Notes 9

• Rollerball wrote: 94 points

  April 3, 2024 - At a wonderful point in its evolution, this offers cavernous freshness with elegant, deep fruit and minerality and ultimately a juicy, inspiring balance of gravity and play. You can feel the hands in the vineyard and the heart in production. Try a bottle now with a brief decant, or any time over the next five years -2028.

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• adamanko wrote: 92 points

  December 20, 2022 - Drinking my second bottle after popping the first one way too soon. And it's much better now. 91-92.

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• Frijole wrote:

  November 19, 2021 - medium plum red, lots of clarity, silvery hue
  Nose: plum, orange rind, juniper berry, dirt, pepper, cigar, leather, tobacco leaf, ash, oak
  Pal: tart bing cherry, plum, leather, ash, orange rind, cigar, tobacco leaf, juniper berry, bay leaf, minerals, touch swine, oak
  Feel: medium, savory
  Finish: medium, long
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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 points

  July 25, 2021 - Sprezzatura Etna Masterclass (The Manor Hotel, Amsterdam, NL): A blend of 94% Nerello Mascalase and 6% Nerello Cappuccio, 1 hectare parcel at 700 metres a.s.l., 50 year old vines, aged for 18 months in used tonneaux, 1800 bottles produced. Fascinating wine, marries depth and elegance, deep cherry fruit, hint of garrigue, velvety tannins, long and playful finish. Forms a synthesis of the Burgundian and Piemontese sides of Nerello Mascalese.

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• adamanko wrote: 90 points

  April 15, 2021 - Concentrated. Coffee. Popped this too early and even though it is quite alright now, I'm sure it would benefit from a few years in the cellar. Red berries. Tea. Spicey. 89-90.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Girolamo Russo
• Varietal Nerello Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Calderara Sottana
• Country Italy
• Region Sicily
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Etna DOC

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• In Cellars 19 (41%)
• Consumed 27 (59%)

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