2023 Vino di Anna "Palmento" Sicilia IGT (Etna)

Foot Crushed in their Palmento! red cherry and plum aromas. Dry, medium bodied with attractive red fruit flavours and a hint of blood orange and spice. Tannins are ripe and well integrated. Serve with a slight chill.

A blend of several micro-vinifications of organically farmed Nerello Mascalese (92%), picked as field blends along with Nerello Cappuccio (2%), Grenache (3%) and the indigenous white varieties of Mt Etna; Carricante, Grecanico, Minnella Bianca (5%). All of the grapes were hand harvested from old bush vines grown on terraces, at high altitudes on the northern slopes of Mt Etna.

Anna Martens and Eric Narioo made their first wine together on Mount Etna in 2008. In 2010, the couple purchased their first vineyard of old bush vines of Nerello Mascelese in Contrada Crasà, along with a neighboring, derelict Etnean palmento and wine cellar.Today, with a team of locals, they cultivate organically, eight hectares of terraced land, divided into small vineyard plots and olive groves scattered across the north face of the volcano. Grapes are hand harvested in September and October and fermented into a range of natural wines, expressive of their “terroir”.The estate also produces an extra virgin olive oil and rears the rare Sicilian black bee. They are among the first handful of the natural wine movement on Mt. Etna, leading the way for the regions uptick in natural wines.