Murgo Etna Rosso 2016

For more than 100 years, the Scammacca del Murgo family has cultivated vines and olives under the fiery gaze of Mount Etna in Sicilia. More than once this active volcano has destroyed vineyard plots and covered their family home under ash, events that would rattle the nerves of even the most daredevil winemakers. Yet for the Scammacca del Murgo clan, it's just the price one pays for the privilege of growing vines in one of the more dynamic and breathtaking wine regions on earth. Nerello Mascalese is Sicilia's most important grape, an indigenous variety that thrives on the island's high-altitude vineyards and pure volcanic soils of Mount Etna and Murgo knows just how to coaxe this grape which we like to think of as a mix between Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo.