2014 Passobianco
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This wine went by the name Guardiola until the 2013 vintage but has since changed names. The 2014 Passobianco is a pure expression of Chardonnay that ages in large oak casks for four months and is later moved to cement vats for an additional eight months. This wine opens to a pretty, luminous appearance and it shows impressive aromatic intensity with whiffs of stone fruit, pear, toasted almond and volcanic sulfur smoke. This white should evolve nicely over the next five years or more.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
About the producer
Tenuta di Passopisciaro is the Etna estate owned by Andrea Franchetti, one of Italy’s pioneering winemakers who founded the Super Tuscan estate Tenuta di Trinoro, before becoming instrumental in Mount Etna’s wine renaissance with his Passopisciaro estate.