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2019 F. Tornatore Etna Bianco Pietrarizzo

WE 95

VN 93

JS 93

CT 91.7

WA 91

JR 16.5

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October 27, 2024 - $43

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2019 F. Tornatore Etna Bianco Pietrarizzo, 750ml

RATINGS

95Wine Enthusiast

...smooth, stunning white offers delicate, enticing scents of Spanish broom, chamomile, ripe white-stone fruit and a whiff of smoke. Savory and loaded with elegance, the medium-bodied, focused palate features juicy Meyer lemon, ripe Bartlett pear, golden apple and tangy, saline mineral notes. Bright acidity lends tension and balance.

93Vinous / IWC

...beguiling and intense mix of peach skins and ripe cantaloupe contrasted by dusty dried flowers and hints of spice. This impresses further with near-glycerol textures that give way to notes of tangerine mixed with apricot preserves and a salty flourish of minerality that seals the deal. The Pietrarizzo lingers incredibly long yet it maintains a wonderfully fresh persona throughout.

93James Suckling

Fresh pineapple, apricot stone, lemon and sea shell on the nose. It’s medium-bodied with crisp acidity and a textured, layered palate. Focused and delicious.

91.7CellarTracker

91The Wine Advocate

This is a very good vintage, one that produced extra richness and fruit concentration, with honey, apricot and Golden Delicious apple.

16.5Jancis Robinson

Smells of ocean-wind-salted gorse bushes and tastes of samphire. Smells, and tastes, of fresh za'atar, of white apple flesh, of coal-charred lemon halves, of fresh-out-the-oven pide bread, of wild windswept rosemary and thyme and tiny green figs and hot sunburnt stones. Smoky and yet with a plump richness. Like smoked butter drizzled over ripe melons. A wine that has volcanic fierceness and defiance, and sunny charm and seduction.

REGION

Italy, Sicily, Etna

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, and, with its 329,000 vineyard acres, Italy’s largest wine region by acreage and the quantity of wine produced. Nevertheless, only 2.1% of all Sicilian wine is DOC, or wine made according to appellation standards. Until the 1970s Sicilian wine grapes either went to make Marsala, the sweet dessert wine introduced by 18th century British wine merchants, or to cooperatives that specialized in bulk wine production. But in 1968 Sicily was awarded its first DOC, which was the Etna DOC on the southern slopes of Mt. Etna, and today there are 19 DOCs. Along with the Maremma on Tuscany’s western coast, Sicily is considered the most exciting winemaking region in Italy. Longtime family agricultural estates are being turned into high quality commercial wineries, and because land prices are low compared to other parts of Italy, enterprising young winemakers and viticulturalists – many of whom practice organic and sustainable farming – have started wineries in Sicily. Marsala is still produced, and the Marsala business is one reason why 60% of Sicily’s vineyards are planted to Catarratto, the white grape used as a base for Marsala. But dry white wines are made from Inzolia, Malvasia, Zibbio and Chardonnay. But it is Sicily’s big, complex red wines that are grabbing the attention of wine enthusiasts. Nero d’Avola is Sicily’s most common red grape, and it produces rich, somewhat spicy wines. Other red grapes are Nerello Mascalese, Frappato and French varietals.