Mount Etna in Sicily is one of the hottest regions for Italian red and white wine at the moment. It has garnered the nickname as the Burgundy of the Mediterranean… Is this true? Let’s compare an Etna Rosso to a Pommard red wine from Burgundy in a blind tasting!
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Château de Pommard, Clos Marey Monge Micault 2020
Donnafugata, Sul Volcano Etna Rosso 2019
00:00 Is Etna the Burgundy of the Mediterranean?
02:15 The REAL Burgundy
04:57 Best CHEAP wine glasses
05:26 Blind Tasting Red Wine
07:29 Blind Tasting REVEAL
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35 Comments
There is no native white varieties in Etna? How the volcanic soils influence the wine ?
LOVEE ETNA ROSSO!! Even before watching Im saying its Totally the Burgundy of the Mediterranean
I have tried a couple of etna rossos. They were closer to Nebbiolo wines as they were really tannic. I have tried way more burgundies, none had so much tannins.
I've only had Firriato 'Le Sabbie dell'Etna' , which was inexpensive compared to the Donafugato at my favorite wine shop. I liked it enough to buy a second bottle. It seemed a rather light wine – not especially tannic – that I would compare with Valpolicello rather than Nebbiolo, but it might be an outlier. Better than some new world pinots I've tried, but not as good as most French versions. Wine Searcher averages the ratings at 88, but I would pop it up a point or two, personally. Quite enjoyable.
weirdly enough Etna reds are far more reserved, monolithic and focused than many French counterparts… maybe not as expressive but more mysterious for sure 😁
SHHHHH YOU'RE GOING TO DRIVE UP THE PRICES WTF!!!
“that is gooooood” 😳 😅
I was thinking, no they're not that expensive overall, but then I figured out I was thinking about Vesuvius and not Etna. From Etna I only had a couple of whites (so far).
Nice glasses is 550ml or 750ml
Tell us the ideal ml for red wine?
Too tempting with new glasses Matthew! I will hold my resolve and stick to the Gabriel Glass (you have a link to those too!)😂👍🏻 As a noob-intermediate palette they have been stellar!
I fully agree. Let me explain. When Nebbiolo is made in the lighter style, hey it is a thin skinned grape, it is the flip side of the coin to Pinot Noir. The Pinot Noir being the feminine and the Nebbiolo being the masculine side of the coin. An Etna Rosso made with Nerello Mascalese is the grape that can elbow its way into this party. I had a couple of bottles from Frank Corneliissen, the "madman of Mt. Etna", the 2016 Contadino. The wine was terrific. Cornelissen is a natural wine maker. Among other things, he uses no sulfur and recommends his wine always be kept below 61 degrees Fahrenheit. Now maybe this is just me, but when you use no sulfur, you are a bombmaker and we are just waiting for the bottles to explode. I could not keep the wine that cool and it was not that cool in the wine shop either. I sweated it out for a couple of months until it was time to pull the corks.
You are wonderful, as your expression (passion) says more than words. (Dull, repressed wine tasters are the norm). Great wine is so exhilirating. Fact!
It used to be possible to be a Burgundy expert, luckily, back in 1970s and 80s. DRC wines were 5-25 bucks. Many Grand Crus were 8-10 bucks! They are the wines you can (blind) distinguish vineyard, year, grape & producer (honest ones); study brings endless discovery and joy! In Oregon; they have made rules for distinguishin. Maybe New Zealand too? Pinot is the right grape. Burgundy is the only place yet. ( or it used to be… Now vast price = pretense). Only 1 great bottle out of the last 20+ years; hundreds were lacking character = distinction. Help finding Etna wines that might be… Thanks Dr. Horkey
Rovsia stems are too long to clean and store a lot of them for tastings; shorter but easy to hold stems please. Great though.
I had a Graci Etna Rosso for 45€ in a restaurant (Germany) and it was deliciuos. It should be findable, at least in Europe, for about 20€ in retail.
Etna Rosso is usually not expensive in Europe you can get a lot of good ones under 20 €
I found a bottle of Château de Puligny Montrachet – Pommard Premier Cru 'Les Pezerolles' 1996 in my cellar. Still beautiful, subtle, nuance, complexity and a long finish. Since then I'm looking forward to explore Burgundy (but not my wallet 😉).
Never had a Etna wine, but im for sure going to try one, if i can finde it 🙂
No doubt Etna is following in Burgundy's footsteps with a focus on individual Contrade.
A 2006 Terre Nere Feudo di Mezzo Quadre della rose, and Cornelissen Magma Rosso 6VA have been utterly haunting
Few months ago get to try Graci Quota 1000 Contrada Barbabecchi vintage 2015.im very very impress.in my humble opinion,a far more better value than burgundy
$100 for a village Pommard? Whoa!! 😬
Love Etna rosso, Girolamo Russo is a really really good introduction to the region..
The Tornatore Etna Rosso is another really nice Etna for a reasonable price…I think around 25$.
Got a set of the Rovsya glasses a few months ago after watching one of your videos. My fave everyday glass. Wish I had a bottle of Etna to pour into it now!
I had a Grolamo Russo ‘a Rina at Cote in Miami last week and it was a real eye opener. Based on that experience and this video it’s clearly a region I need to explore.
I'm not sure if this video was your new lighting system but if it is you may want to readjust the lighting. You're getting hard shadows.
Would have ben nice to get in a Dao wine also known as Portuguese burgundy 😉
I just tried a Tuscona for the first time ever last night, and it was flipping amazing.
I just moved to MI from Sonoma, but I never got into wine while living in Cali. Now that I enjoy it, I regret not taking advantage of living there, lol.
I'm making up for it by stock-piling cases of 2016 Pomerol and St Emillion before they all go away, and sampling everything I can get my hands on, while hunting down tasty bordeaux.
Mr. Estager was in town last week and gave a tasting, and he signed a couple of my bottles… so now I have even fewer Pomerol that I can open, lol.
There are so many good 2016, 2018, and 2019 vintages still available on shelves, that it is a really good time to get into wine, IMO. I never really enjoyed wine before this year, and now I'm not sure whether it was me, or the wines, lol…
Some are definitely better than others, but it's honestly hard to find a bad Bordeaux from 2016; like, it takes actual effort to try and find a bad one.
Plus, inflation is a ticking time bomb before the prices we're used to, begin slowly climbing up for our favorite Chateau…
I believe the days of $25 bordeaux are quickly coming to an end; demand is already outweighing supply, and all it takes is one bad year for prices to double overnight.
Estager said that 2022 only produced half the juice from the fruit that you would normally get from a harvest, and that every Chateau is saying the same thing: super delicious grapes, but very little yield… even less than 2018.
If 2023 is the same type of tiny yield… you can expect prices to soar in 2024, after two years of short supply…
Good and interesting vid! Nice one! LOL “end game”
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Nice looking glasses.
Glad you read my comment. Enta to is kind of like Pinot Noir but a lot more smokier because of volcanic soil. I love it way more than Barolo.
It's a great video and lots of fun. Unfortunately, I haven't drunk that much red Burgundy as the prices are so high.
As to Etna wines, due to high production costs and low availability, they are also not that inexpensive. So I have only tasted a few, so it's hard for me to compare the two.
Perhaps what they have in common is an elegance and sometimes an ethereal quality to them. They are both total terroir wines, but as others have mentioned, the terroir is very different.
The varietal/cultivars are also very different; so maybe one can say that they have a similar ethos. But they are distinctly different wines.
Didn't have much Burgundy or Etna in my life, since their prices are crazy in Brazil. With that said, the ones I had from Etna (Alta Mora, Donnafugatta and Tennuta Delle Terre) didn't remind me of the ones from Burgundy, apart from the colour. In my opinion, they belong, in terms of style, firmly to the south of Italy. Nero D'avola, Primitivo and Negroamaro are way heavier in style, but they remind me more of Nerello Mescalese than Pinot from Burgundy, that's for sure.
Firriato is available in Waitrose (middle class supermarket in the UK) for about £12.
Whilst it’s not quite as intense as examples I had in Sicily, it is remarkable value.
Supermarkets can be boring for wine shopping, their economics of scale can provide some great value if the Buyers are allowed to shop a little further afield than the commonly accepted styles and regions.