2022 Sciara – Centenario – Etna Rosso – DOC Grillo 000 bottles annually

000 bottles annually

Intense straw-yellow color with a nose of exotic fruit

finishing with juicy pear and pink grapefruit notes

the fermentation continues at 20°C until all sugars are consumed

the grapes are destemmed

2022 Sciara – Centenario – Etna Rosso – DOC Grillo 000 bottles annuallySciara's top wine, from a single parcel of own rooted Nerello Mascalese at 630 metres, vines over a century old, among the few pre phylloxera plantings left on Etna. Aged largely in amphora and sandstone with a portion in fibreglass. Warm and rounded, with fine grained tannins, red cherries and wild strawberries, and a peppery, grainy, faintly tarry complexity underneath. Real concentration and energy for something this supple. A wine to sit with, not