Girolamo Russo - Etna Rosato
| Vintage: | 2022 |
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| Description: | Set on the north slope of the mountain, at an altitude of 650-780 metres above sea-level, the winery's vineyards cover 18 hectares, surrounded by hazelnut and olive groves. Re-established by Giuseppe Russo in 2005, and dedicated to the memory of his father Girolamo, the winery is a powerful expression of Giuseppe's desire to respect and conserve his family's traditional values, but interpreting those values in a new and personal way, introducing and developing new approaches to winemaking, but remaining in the village of his birth, Passopisciaro – the centre of the recent renaissance in the great red wines of Etna. Giuseppe and his staff farm the estate organically, employing the traditional methods which have permitted these ancient vineyards to survive for well over a century. And so, the old bush-trained (or head-trained) vines and new cordon-trained vines grow side-by-side, and the plants are tended to the old-fashioned way, by |
| Price: | $ 29.00 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
