2022 Emiliano Falsini FEUDO PIGNATONE Etna Rosso, Italy (750ml)

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Emiliano Falsini is a small, artisan wine project created by Tuscan enologist Emiliano Falsini, one of Italy’s most respected consulting winemakers, who spent years advising top estates in Tuscany and Sicily before deciding to bottle wine under his own name. In 2018 he purchased old-vine Nerello Mascalese vineyards in Contrada Feudo Pignatone on the northern slope of Mount Etna, Sicily, followed soon after by Cabernet Franc land in Le Sondraie near Castagneto Carducci in Bolgheri, thus anchoring the estate in two territories he knew intimately from his consultancy work. Since his first harvest under his own label in 2019, production has remained very small, focused on organically farmed, high-altitude Etna parcels and carefully managed coastal Tuscan vineyards. Resulting in wines that faithfully express their terroir through minimal intervention in the cellar and great attention to soil, climate, and vine age, a philosophy that has quickly earned his winery a reputation for precision, purity, and place-driven character.

This 100% Nerello Mascalese, sourced from vines that range in age from 30 to 100 years old, offers elegant balance, primary concentration, and a mineral-driven tension true to its Etna terroir. Contrada Feudo Pignatone is on Mount Etna's northern slope near Randazzo, at 700 meters elevation. Emiliano Falsini organically farms 3 hectares of old bush vines here, mixed with olives and fruit trees. The 2022 Emiliano Falsini Feudo Pignatone Etna Rosso bursts with an exotic bouquet of dried roses, violets, lavender, crushed black cherries, and spicy notes. On the palate, it delivers racy acidity, tart wild berry fruits, and finely integrated tannins that build to a structured, lingering finish with rosy florals and licorice echoes. 300 cases produced.