Tenute Bosco

Etna Rosato 'Piano dei Daini' 2018

91

The 2018 Etna Rosato Piano dei Daini opens to a beautifully luminous pale pink color. The wine is fresh and zesty with brushings of white cherry, cranberry and cassis, all wrapped into a tight, lean and snappy rosé. The alberello vines in use here are 100 years old, planted in volcanic rock terraces. This would be a perfect choice for salmon, dill and cream cheese on crackers. Some 8,000 bottles were made. Drink Date 2019 - 2022

Tenute Bosco

Etna Rosato 'Piano dei Daini' 2017

90

This Rosato opens to a pale pink color and delicate appearance. The 2017 Etna Rosato (100% Nerello Mascalese from pre-phylloxera vines in Passopisciaro) offers docile and fragrant aromas of rose petal, white almond and dried cranberry. This is a very refreshing and pretty wine with zesty fresh fruit. Only 3,000 bottles were made. Drink Date 2018 - 2021

Tenute Bosco

Etna Bianco Piano dei Daini' 2022

93

This is a delicious rendering of Carricante from the slopes of Mount Etna, with very precise balance of ripe but delicate fruit and bright acidity that never seem sour even though it is relentlessly refreshing. The fruit notes are definitely more reminiscent of citrus than any other basic family, but a suggestion of tart, dried apricot is also evident, and other suggestions are likely to emerge as this develops with bottle age. Salty mineral notes are already in evidence, and these will also rise in prominence as the wine benefits from time in bottle. Reds from Etna remain more popular than the whites in worldwide terms, but my experience indicates that Carricante is every bit as superb a variety as Nerello Mascalese (the leading red variety on Etna), and that the whites show the volcanic minerality of Etna’s remarkable terroir even more vividly than the reds. One last tip for those who don’t know these well yet: Sicily as a whole was a joke in Italian wine 25 years ago, whereas now the wines of Etna are now the darlings of the overwhelming majority of critical observers across the country.