2018 Tascante Ghiaia Nera

Nerello Mascalese is a highly regarded, dark-skinned grape variety that grows most commonly on the volcanic slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily. Its wines, which have had a rapid upsurge in popularity in the last decade, have a tendency to reflect their surroundings, giving taut, fresh red wines with fruity, herbaceous flavors, excellent minerality and an earthy nuance. Nerello Mascalese wines often have a perfume reminiscent of those of the noble wines of Barolo and Burgundy.

                                                                 
©Tasca d’Almerita

Tasca d’Almerita is a wine producer making wine from estates around Sicily. The company’s history dates back to 1830, although it wasn’t until the 1950s that proprietor Count Guiseppe Tasca began to focus on quality, rather than bulk production.
Today, its wines are exported to four continents.

Etna is an Italian wine DOC which covers the slopes of Mount Etna, the 3330 meter (10,920ft) active volcano that dominates the northeastern corner of Sicily. The Etna DOC was the very first in Sicily, created in August 1968 and followed nine months later by that of Sicily’s most famous wine, Marsala.