Tenuta di Fessina Il Musmeci Riserva Etna Rosso, Sicily, Italy

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A release of 8,000 bottles, the Tenuta di Fessina 2015 Etna Rosso Riserva Il Musmeci is made with Nerello Mascalese and shows signs of a delicate and slow bottle evolution. The fruit is intact with dried cherry and soft plum, but aged notes of tar, smoky ash and cured tobacco have also started to set in. These are elegant results with tannic tightness at the back, made for a steak and creamy mushroom sauce. You could wait to drink this bottle, but it tastes great right now.

The 2012 Etna Rosso Riserva Il Musmeci is a pure expression of Nerello Mascalese. Only 7,000 bottles and 100 magnums were produced. The wine is slightly closed at first, but it opens relatively quickly to showcase territory-driven tones of dried black fruit, resin, tar, cigar smoke, black olive and scorched earth. The wine shows a careful and graceful aging evolution. However, the mouthfeel is compact and fresh.

This is Tenuta di Fessina's top-shelf wine. The 2011 Etna Rosso Riserva Il Musmeci (100% Nerello Mascalese) is a silky and streamlined wine that has softened over time in the bottle. Its texture is very fine and subtle. The wine shows a dark garnet color with light highlights of brown and amber. The bouquet has moved into a tertiary stage as there is little bright fruit left. Instead, you get ethereal aromas of tar, licorice and campfire ash. The wine is at a perfect point in its drinking window now, but I wouldn't wait too much longer. Perhaps Tenuta di Fessina should release this Riserva a year or two earlier? Bottle production is 9,000 units strong.