Calabretta Terre Siciliane Nerello Mascalese Vigne Vecchie 2016 tsolikouri or "Close to the sea"

or "Close to the sea"

The Marchionni family settled here in the late 1970s to make wine and in 1998

and surprisingly serious

delivering hedonic black fruits and lots of spicy accents with a velvety texture and seamless freshness

Calabretta Terre Siciliane Nerello Mascalese Vigne Vecchie 2016 tsolikouri or "Close to the sea"Calabretta's oldest vines of Nerello Mascalese are reserved for this cuvee, given extended age in the bottle before release. The wine needs it too, because those old vines yield wine of intensity whose charms are slow to develop, but well worth the wait. This wine has a strong savory note to it, more than the usual basalt type earth alongside Etna's signature ripe red fruits.