2019 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Prephylloxera "La Vigna di Don Peppino" Calderara Sottana

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  3/29/2024 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Its been three years since I’ve tasted this beauty and its continue to be the finest Etna Rosso I’ve had. Made from single varietal of Nerello Mascalese planted before phylloxera, earlier than 1881. Intense smoky complex aroma of cherries, dried rose petals, bruised apples, tar, strawberry jam, leather, flint, vermouth hints. Medium+ body, concentrated, elegant and powerful full of ever changing layers of red berries, flowers and pronounced minerality, vibrant acidity and medium light tannins, long finish.

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  12/17/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Comprehensive Tenuta delle Terre Nere (Chicago, IL): Hands down the wine of the tasting -- they really knocked it out of the park in 2019. Lovely perfumed aromatics with a slight herbal tone, but with plenty of minerality and acidity to balance the generous fruit on the palate. Clearly a world-class wine, one that really ought to put Etna on the map.

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  11/11/2023 - Alien Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Etna Rosso: pale, dusky Ruby in the glass. Translucent, but foggy. Great aroma - liver and stone and flint on the nose. dried petals. Wotn. Cools your mouth. Light dried red fruit. Definitely not pruney though. Really really fine drying finish.

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  11/11/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points

  WineEP Etna lunch (Terra Rossa): A suitable finale. Bloody and meaty on the nose, with some rose coming through, and increasingly lovely with more time in the glass. Crisp and elegant on the palate, the fruit with a blue tinge rather than being purely in the red spectrum, a touch of salinity and and some violets. A beautiful, grippy, spicy finish. Arresting, balanced and sophisticated: a real Etna grand cru!

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  4/30/2023 - thesternowl wrote: 94 Points

  Popped and poured; no formal notes. This was opened during a wild night of nerdy bacchanalian excess and from what I recall, it was absolutely gorgeous in an Italy meets Burgundy sort of way. It was elegant and transparent…and yet had palpable substance, depth and class. I’ve had many of the single contrada wines produced by Tenuta delle Terre Nere but never before the Prephylloxera wines. That being said, I recently enjoyed the 2019 “Moganazzi” and this was a noticeable step up. The fruit for the “La Vigna di Don Peppino” comes from less than a hectare of ungrafted vines from the “Calderara Sottana” contrada. These vines date back to the 1880’s or earlier; which is bananas. This was flat out gorgeous and had me dreaming about trying this again in 2033. The quality is undeniable; showing well in its youth but this will be more complete after 2028.

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