Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso 'Prephylloxera', 2024 SO021624_Collet and crushed rock rise from

and crushed rock rise from the glass

and bottles Pie Rupestris from Nebbiolo on Rupestris rootstock in the Otin Fiorin parcel of the Gabutti cru

the soil here is deep and almost exclusively volcanic ash — no gravel field

The 2004 vintage was classic and balanced

Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Rosso 'Prephylloxera', 2024 SO021624_Collet and crushed rock rise fromThese are ungrafted vines planted before phylloxera arrived in the 1880s, never grafted onto American rootstock, and now averaging more than 140 years old. The parcel is called La Vigna di Don Peppino: eight tenths of a hectare inside contrada Calderara at 620 meters above Randazzo, on shallow, rock strewn volcanic soil carrying only traces of ash, the vines head trained as alberello and modified alberello, the whole thing yielding about 4,000