2024 Tenuta Delle Terre Nere Etna Rosato DOC

Castiglione di Sicilia and Randazzo
Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio

This rosé is bright—even a bit edgy—but never shallow. The joy it conveys is refined, and it has the potential to age beautifully over time. Not that there’s any need to age it. But when it does age, it’s surprising to discover how its freshness combines with an unexpected complexity for a rosé. Pairs well with fish, poultry, soups, pasta, prosciutto and melon, salami and figs, bread, olives, and cheese. Extremely versatile.

From the producer Marco de Grazia: “I produced this wine for the first time in 2007. Don’t get me wrong: I love good rosé wines. I just never thought I’d make one. It wasn’t a priority of mine. But it was for my daughter Elena. The allure of the color pink for the fairer sex is well known, especially at the tender age of 3. Painting the winery pink just wasn’t enough. Was there a red wine? Yes. A white one? Yes. Well, then there had to be a pink one too! And the extraordinary versatility of Nerello, I soon discovered, was exactly what was needed.

Not an easy wine to make. In fact, quite the opposite: balance must be sought with the utmost delicacy. The Platonic ideal, at least as I see it—if I may put it that way—would be a rosé with the body of a white and the soul of a red.

Anyway, that’s what I aim for: a wine that is joyful without being frivolous; that has tension without being austere. And I feel we’re close.”