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Pietradolce, Contrada Rampante Etna Rosso 2017

1 current tracked listing from 1 UK retailer, from £37.00.

Brand / producer	Pietradolce
Category	Red
Retailer type	Red Still
Vintage	2017
Container size	750ml

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About this product

Rampante is one of Etna's most coveted single contrade, a high-altitude north-facing plot on the volcano's upper slopes where Nerello Mascalese grows in ancient, ungrafted vines on black basalt soils. Pietradolce's 2017 from this site is exactly the kind of wine that has made Etna the most exciting red wine conversation in Italy: pale in colour, deceptively light on its feet, but with a depth and mineral intensity that keeps pulling you back. The 2017 vintage brought warm, dry conditions that gave the wine a little more flesh than usual without sacrificing the site's characteristic tension. This is a wine about place more than variety, and Rampante's volcanic signature is all over it: that combination of bright red fruit, iron and ash minerality, and tannins that are fine but insistent.