Girolamo Russo 'Nerina' Etna Bianco 2023
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- TASTING NOTE: "’The 2023 feels more tropical than the 2022, offering aromas of papaya, banana, apricot and lychee, followed by a sweetly ripe, mineral inflected core filled out with succulent yellow fruits. Sapidity and freshness in abundance. Nerina embraces Etna's indigenous varieties: as well as 75% of Carricante, the blend includes Catarratto, Inzolia, Grecanico, Minnella and Coda di Volpe. The wine is matured for six months, mostly in stainless steel but with 30% in tonneaux." 92 Points - James Button, Decanter
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Set on the north slope of the mountain, at an altitude of 650-780 metres above sea-level, the winery’s vineyards cover 18 hectares, surrounded by hazelnut and olive groves. Re-established by Giuseppe Russo in 2005, and dedicated to the memory of his father Girolamo, the winery is a powerful expression of Giuseppe’s desire to respect and conserve his family’s traditional values, but interpreting those values in a new and personal way, introducing and developing new approaches to winemaking, but remaining in the village of his birth, Passopisciaro – the centre of the recent renaissance in the great red wines of Etna. Giuseppe and his staff farm the estate organically, employing the traditional methods which have permitted these ancient vineyards to survive for well over a century. And so, the old bush-trained (or head-trained) vines and new cordon-trained vines grow side-by-side, and the plants are tended to the old-fashioned way, by hand: spur pruning, ploughing, hoeing, trellising, and spraying with copper sulphate. In October, at harvest time, the grapes are carefully selected and the grapes from each vineyard are harvested and fermented separately, ensuring that the wine expresses the specificity of its terroir – the perfumes, colours and austere sweetness of each of these vineyards. Girolamo Russo
- COUNTRY: Italy
- REGION: Sicily
- SUB-REGION: Etna
- VARIETAL: Carricante 75%, Catarratto, Inzolia, Grecanico, Minnella, Coda di Volpe
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Giuseppe Russo
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Organic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
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