2017 Contrada Rampante
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Andrea Franchetti's 2017 Contrada R (from the Contrada Rampante) is the most volcanic and mineral-driven of these single-vineyard expressions. You taste the dusty volcanic soil as if you were holding it in your hands. Delicate berry and blueberry aromas fill in the rear. The wine shows some dryness with powdery tannins and a mid-weight but very compact mouthfeel. Of these wines, I would drink this bottle soonest. Production is 2,700 bottles small.
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Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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A 70- to 80-year-old vineyard. Cask sample. Heady and concentrated with a little lift on the nose and stalky dark notes. Supple palate with linear acidity running through. Very fine, coating tannins. Long, complex and succulent. (WS)
About the producer
Tenuta di Passopisciaro is the Etna estate owned by Andrea Franchetti, one of Italy’s pioneering winemakers who founded the Super Tuscan estate Tenuta di Trinoro, before becoming instrumental in Mount Etna’s wine renaissance with his Passopisciaro estate.