2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Monte Serra
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Pouring a medium garnet color, the 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Monte Serra is elegant and refined with ripe cherries, chalky earth, strawberries, wild herbes de Provence, and dusty earth. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a stony, savory finish, it’s graceful and refined, with a Burgundian-like aesthetic. Drink 2025-2037. Proprietors Antonio and Salvino Benanti have been leading their family estate since 2012, following in the footstep of their father Giuseppe. The estate is located on the south side of Etna, where the wines for this report were tasted with Agotino Failla. In the cellar, each of the red Contrade wines was aged for 12 months in French tonneaux prior to resting in the bottle.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Eric Guido, Vinous
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The 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Monte Serra is coy in the glass, grumbling up with hints of dried cherry, sage and cedary spice. It opens with a balanced inner sweetness that is quickly contrasted by tart wild berry fruits and saline minerals that add a tactile sensation toward the close. The 2022 finishes long and structured with a sour berry concentration and violet inner florals that slowly fade. Further cellaring should help to soften its contours over time, yet I expect the Monte Serra will always be something a nervy and feisty Etna Rosso.
About the producer
Benanti is one of the founding fathers of modern-day wine in Sicily, with Giuseppe Benanti an early champion of wines made from the slopes of Mount Etna. Today the property is in the hands of Giuseppe’s children and remains one of the region’s leading names.