Etna Rosso - Nerello Mascalese - Rampante, IT - 17
 
If you are looking for a recommendation for a fabulous example to try of one of Etna’s fine Rosso wines, I’d look for Pietradulce. It’s a mixed Contrada appellate made mostly in Rampante, where the winery is, about 1000m above sea level. Winemaker Michele Faro was one major player in the renaissance of good wines here in Sicily. The wine is sharp, interesting, with crimson cherry flavor, a bit of soupy strawberry and some kids of ash, rosewood, brass, and gunpowder. Its delightfully naive, interesting, easy-drinking, and kind to the senses, yet intellectual and subdued in youth. It’s not very Burgundian, but it certainly is very Etna.