Famiglia Statella 2021 Etna Rosso 'Pignatuni' Vecchie Vigne 2019 (Red wine of Sicily) 112 cal/glass

Ruby red in the glass, with enthusiastic aromas of sweet spices and really good balsamic vinegar. On the palate, this is already an elegant wine in its current youth, and like all gangly teen-agers, this one will gain even more over time. It's delicious now, but if you have the resources I highly recommend buying several bottles and opening one every year or two so you can enjoy it at each stage of its development.

The wine comes from the oldest part of Statella's volcanic vineyards, formed from 60,000 - 15,000 years ago. The vines too are ancient, with some of them being pre-phylloxera (100+ years).

Calogero Statella and his wife, Rita, were both born and raised in the shadow of Mt. Etna, growing up in the land of black soils and raining lava ash.

Since 2003, Calogera has also crafted wines for the famed Tenuta delle Terre Nere, helping establish their fame as one of Etna's premier producers. But the Statella's had long dreamed of owning their own family vineyard and wine under their own label.

That dream became a reality in 2015 and they still manage every stage of bringing this organic wine to life.