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Tasting notes
Score 92/100 · Drink 2025-2035, Jeb Dunnuck, Oct 2025

Tasted at the winery, the 2017 Etna Rosso Passorosso comes from this very hot vintage but offers gorgeous notes of ripe cherries, fresh leather, dried herbs, and pressed flowers. Medium-bodied, with a velvety texture, ripe tannins, and a long-lasting finish, it’s quite fresh and not showing much development and is in a great place right now. Drink 2025-2035. Coming from the eponymous village in the north side of Etna, they will be certified organic next year.

Critic scores

Critic scores
92
92/100

Average Score

17
17/20

Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com

92
92/100

Jeb Dunnuck

More reviews and scores

91 points
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
Score 91/100 · Drink 2019-2027, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate, Oct 2019

The 2017 Etna Rosso Passorosso is a mid-weight wine with added succulence and concentration that comes naturally to this vintage. The wine shows the characteristics of Etna with wild berry aromas that cede to blue flower, smoke, tar, toasted aniseed and campfire ash. This is one of the most accessible and easy-drinking reds from Andrea Franchetti. Some 60,000 bottles were made.

17 points
Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
Score 17/20 · Drink 2018-2024, Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com, Apr 2018

Cask sample, will be bottled next year. Mid crimson. Brooding cherry nose which reminds me a little of Brunello di Montalcino. Succulent and generous fruit tied together by wonderful powdery long tannins. Hedonistic yet elegant. (WS)

About the producer

Tenuta di Passopisciaro 1:1
Passopisciaro

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.

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Grape Blend

Nerello Mascalese

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

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