“San Lorenzo” Rosso Etna DOC 2024

Tenuta delle Terre Nere | Sicily
Az. Agr. Tenuta delle Terre Nere | Contrada Calderara | IT 95036 Randazzo

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On the far north-western edge of the Etna DOC, where the cold reigns and time seems to stand still, lies San Lorenzo – one of the volcano’s three holy grails. Here, at an altitude of 750 metres in the municipality of Randazzo, we encounter a geological marvel: a pure elliptical terroir, formed 60,000 years ago by the explosive activity of the Ellittico crater. Marc de Grazia recognised something extraordinary in San Lorenzo – a place of aristocratic purity. Of the hundreds of contrade on Mount Etna, only three possess this unadulterated elliptical heritage: Bocca d’Orzo, Calderara and San Lorenzo. Millennia of lava flows have buried all the older soils, leaving behind only tiny, precious fragments of these ancient volcanic sands.

San Lorenzo has the coldest microclimate in the entire appellation – a combination of extreme altitude and north-westerly exposure that produces wines of exceptional intensity. The seventy-year-old Nerello Mascalese vines are rooted in almost pure volcanic ash, mixed with black pumice. It is here that those ‘wines of noble origin’ are produced, combining power and generosity in a majestic balance.

San Lorenzo unfolds a complex bouquet of cherry blossom and rose petals, interwoven with notes of dark cherries and blood orange peel. On the palate, the full finesse of this Grand Cru is revealed: elegantly structured, with silky tannins and that mesmerising citrus note that lingers for minutes on end. Sixteen to eighteen months in barriques and large wooden casks lend this exceptional terroir the perfection that makes San Lorenzo one of Italy’s most significant single-vineyard wines – a quiet aristocrat of irresistible elegance. SUPERIORE.DE