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Pietro Caciorgna Mt. Etna Rosso Guardoilvento

Name: Pietro Caciorgna Mt. Etna Rosso Guardoilvento
Brand: Pietro Caciorgna
SKU: 18837
Price: 26.0 GBP
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Producer Pietro Caciorgna

Country Italy

Region Etna, Sicily

ABV 14.5%

Tasting Notes

Sour Cherry, Red Plum, Ash and Volcanic Stone

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More About Pietro Caciorgna Mt. Etna Rosso Guardoilvento

Pietro Caciorgna’s “Guardoilvento” Etna Rosso is crafted from 100 % Nerello Mascalese grown on the northern slopes of Mount Etna at approximately 750 m altitude. Vines are trained in the traditional alberello bush system, pre-phylloxera rooted, organically farmed with no chemical fertilizers, and dry-farmed to concentrate the fruit.

After manual harvesting, grapes undergo careful sorting and are destemmed. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks, with a gentle punch‑down regime (2 days at 10 °C, then 6 days at 28–30 °C) using native yeast. Malolactic fermentation follows also in stainless steel. The wine is aged 8 months in second‑use French barriques before a 3‑month rest in bottle.

Tasting as a youthful 2022 expression: pale ruby, with intense yet delicate aromas of Morello cherry, red plum, violets and spice, underpinned by volcanic minerality.

The palate is medium-bodied, with elegant tannins, refreshing acidity and a touch of ash and graphite, a classic Etna profile.

The overall ethos emphasizes terroir authenticity, organic farming, native fermentation and minimal intervention, resulting in a wine that balances power with elegance and is approachable now but capable of further development

Meet the Producer, Pietro Caciorgna

Pietro Caciorgna

Style: Winery

Etna has become one of the wine world’s favourite volcanic obsessions over the last decade, and reasonably so. Old vines, high altitude, black lava soils and wines that somehow manage to feel both powerful and incredibly tense at the same time. Pietro Caciorgna works right in the middle of that landscape.

Originally from Tuscany, Caciorgna eventually settled on Etna’s northern slopes where Nerello Mascalese thrives in cooler mountain conditions. The resulting reds often carry a sort of Sicilian answer to Nebbiolo energy. Sour cherry, wild herbs, ash, orange peel and firm tannins wrapped into something savoury and intensely mineral.

The wines tend to avoid heavy extraction or excessive oak. Instead they lean into transparency and site expression, allowing the volcanic soils and altitude to speak clearly. There is usually a brightness and precision to the fruit that surprises people expecting warm-climate richness.

Etna itself creates unusually varied vineyard conditions because of elevation and lava flow history. Vineyards only a short distance apart can behave very differently, which explains why producers there speak about contrada sites with almost Burgundian intensity.

What makes Pietro Caciorgna particularly interesting is the balance between Tuscan winemaking experience and Etna’s wild volcanic identity. The wines feel disciplined but never polished to the point of losing character.