2022 Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Rinazzo
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The 2022 Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Rinazzo has another gear and is beautifully layered and yet weightless. In the glass, it has a bright, platinum-yellow hue and offers notes of crystallized honey, lemon curd, sea spray, petrol, and white pineapples. Medium to full-bodied, it boasts a gorgeous, waxy, glycerin-rich citrus oil texture. The acidity is a bit more modest in this vintage, but it shows no oxidation and has a pure and textural nature. Drink 2025-2035. Proprietors Antonio and Salvino Benanti have been leading their family estate since 2012, following in the footstep of their father Giuseppe. The estate is located on the south side of Etna, where the wines for this report were tasted with Agotino Failla. In the cellar, each of the red Contrade wines was aged for 12 months in French tonneaux prior to resting in the bottle.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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A burst of flinty stone and smoke gives way to minty herbs and crushed green apples as the 2022 Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Rinazzo blossoms in the glass. It washes across the palate with textures of pure silk as saline minerals saturate and citrus-tinged orchard fruits cascade throughout. The 2022 keeps the energy remarkably high, excited by zesty acidity as hints of sour grapefruit curl the tongue throughout the long and youthfully tense finale. The Rinazzo is enjoyable today, but it also possesses a balance that will reward cellaring. Beautifully done.
About the producer
Benanti is one of the founding fathers of modern-day wine in Sicily, with Giuseppe Benanti an early champion of wines made from the slopes of Mount Etna. Today the property is in the hands of Giuseppe’s children and remains one of the region’s leading names.