Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso, 'Guardiola', 2005
Maroonish cranberry red colored. Salted plum and cherry liquor nose. Mulled fruits, Christmas cake with rum and candied fruits, macerated plums, oak cask on the still fairly tannic finish. The wood here is thick and heavy, hearkening back to DeGrazia's earlier love and promotion of barrique aged Barolo, and is the worst offender of any of his Etna crus I've had so far (harkening back to 2004). This is thick, heavy, and plodding, with off-putting wood on the finish, I am really not sure what this wine is trying to do or become. Not something I want to drink. 14% Ben Christiansen's most recent Cellartracker note (7/15/2009) seems to best sum up the experience: rustic, earthy, woody.
Maroonish cranberry red colored. Salted plum and cherry liquor nose. Mulled fruits, Christmas cake with rum and candied fruits, macerated plums, oak cask on the still fairly tannic finish. The wood here is thick and heavy, hearkening back to DeGrazia's earlier love and promotion of barrique aged Barolo, and is the worst offender of any of his Etna crus I've had so far (harkening back to 2004). This is thick, heavy, and plodding, with off-putting wood on the finish, I am really not sure what this wine is trying to do or become. Not something I want to drink. 14% Ben Christiansen's most recent Cellartracker note (7/15/2009) seems to best sum up the experience: rustic, earthy, woody.