Friday Night Flight: $16 for 5 pours with 3 additional wines for purchase.
Gebbia Grillo Sicilia DOC 2023 $21 - From the first sip, it’s bursting with bright citrus, juicy green apple, and a hint of tropical pineapple, all wrapped up with a lively, refreshing finish.
Alcesti 2023 Isola dei Profumi Rosso $15 - A blend of Nero d'Avola and Frappato with vibrant notes of ripe cherry, blackberry, and a subtle whisper of spice. Crafted from carefully selected indigenous grapes, it offers a rich, full-bodied experience with a velvety finish.
Cantine Volpi 2024 Era Sicilia Nero d’Avola $16 - This medium-dark, rich and full-bodied red wine is full of dark fruits such as blackberries and plums and complimented with soft, round and ripe tannins with balanced acidity.
Murgo Etna Rosso 2022 $21 - Expressive, floral, and spicy. Cardamom, cranberries, toasted spice, and floral perfume lift from the glass. Elegant and floating on the palate, it has a lean to medium-bodied texture, with fine tannins and a clean stony finish.
Calabretta Cala Cala Rosso NV $23 - This wine is 95% Nerello Mascalese and 5% Nerello Cappuccio, all grown on volcanic soil, hand-harvested, and partially in large barrels and partially in stainless steel. Notes of baked cherry, spice, orange peel, coffee, smoked meat, and dusty red fruit.
Bonus Wines
Gulfi di Vito Nero D’Avola “Rossojbleo” 2023 $25 - Seductive aroma revealing tones of red berries, flowers, cinnamon and minerals. Juicy, spicy and fresh, with rich tones of ripe dark fruit, lively acidity and sweetness. Long fruity and floral aftertaste
Gurrieri Frappato Terre Siciliane 2024 $26 - This latest vintage offers a fresh blast of raspberry, strawberry, and smoked orange peel on the nose. The palate is crunchy and crisp, and tastes of the raspberries that fall off the bush when you try to pick them and a dusting of black pepper.
Terre Nerre Etna Rosso 2023 $42 - I only received 6 bottles for my allocation of this wine last year and was delighted when I was offered a bit more this year. To me, this is one of those wines I like to sit with for a while and contemplate its nuances. Made from very fine Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio from low yielding vineyards (35 Hl. Per hectar), both young and old.
The grapes are macerated until the end of fermentation. The wine then continues its life in wood until bottled roughly one year after harvest. Even young it is a distinguished wine. Fresh, fragrant, beautifully slender and with a fine grip, it has a natural polish, a stage presence, as it were. And, in aging, as its weave gathers into rich complexity, it is a wine for gentlemen.