Girolamo Russo – Etna Rosso San Lorenzo – 2017

Etna wines have become the new trend but thirty years ago who would have believed it? Girolamo Russo is one of the first to produce wine in this area and to give a true identity to the company by starting to bottle the first bottles. With his untimely death in 2005 he leaves everything in the hands of his son Giuseppe, a former professor with a passion for wine and his territory in his blood.The winery is located on the northern side of Etna and consists of three plots between 650 and 800 meters high. , the vineyards are grown organically and its wines taste of Sicily, impactful and endowed with a strong personality. San Lorenzo is its most important district, we are at 800 m above sea level and here the plants are between 70 and 100 years of age, the wine obtained is fabulously expressive, a rustic wine made in the old way where the dominant part is obviously the minerality, given by the volcanic soils, which is intertwined with a not indifferent structure.

• Producer: Russo Girolamo
• Name: Etna RED San Lorenzo
• Grape Variety:98% Nerello Mascalese, 2% Nerello Cappuccio
• Vintage: 2017
• Alcohol Content: 14%
• Bottle Size: 750ml
• Production: 9500 bottles

Productive Notes: Fermentation with indigenous steel yeasts, maceration on the skins for two weeks. Aging in French wooden barrels for 20 months, it rests for at least six months in the bottle.