Pietradolce Archineri Etna Bianco 2022

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Pietradolce
Archineri Etna Bianco 2022

Vintage : 2022
Country : Italy
Region : Sicily
Subregion :
Type : White
Style : Medium Bodied Aromatic Dry
Format : 75cl
Alcohol : 13°
Grappes : 100% Carricante

Experts		Score	Vintage
RP	Robert Parker	93	2021
JS	James Suckling	95	2020
WE	Wine Enthusiast	90	2019
DCT	Decanter	93	2018
W&S	Wines & Spirits	92	2017

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From the same producer

Very pale straw color. Gorgeous nose of white peach, lime, minerals and jasmine. Then fresh and crisp, but with an underlying glyceral note that provides backbone to the zingy citrus and pomaceous orchard fruit flavors. Finishes extremely long with strong notes of fresh ginger and an underpinning of mineral dust. An outstanding Etna Bianco.

Robert Parker (RP) : 93 Points (2021)

The 2021 Etna Bianco Archineri is a beautiful wine with the crystalline luminosity and bright aromas that you look for in a wine from Etna made with the popular Carricante grape. In this case, fruit comes from pre-phylloxera vines at 900 meters in elevation. There is some saltiness and crushed oyster shell with grapefruit, unripe peach and green apple. Production is 7,000 bottles.

James Suckling (JS) : 95 Points (2020)

Clear and bright aromas of sliced pear, melon, apple and honeysuckle. Full-bodied, layered and creamy with density and richness, yet it remains agile. Some cooked lemon and bitter lemon at the end. Honeysuckle and sage, too. From carricante vines that are about 100 years old.

Wine Enthusiast (WE) : 90 Points (2019)

Spanish broom, green melon and honey aromas lead the nose. Made with grapes from extremely old vines, the palate features ripe pear, lemon drop candy and tangy saline before a white almond close. (KO) (11/2020)

Decanter (DCT) : 93 Points (2018)

Splendid wine, produced from pre-phylloxera vines at 850m on Etna’s eastern slopes. Lively lime nose, the attack fresh and intense. Ripe citrus flavours dominate; very concentrated, mineral and imposing.

Wines & Spirits (W&S) : 92 Points (2017)

In 2005, Michele Faro established Pietradolce near Castiglione di Sicilia on Mount Etna’s northern slope. He and his team farm 27 acres of native Etna varieties, including a plot of ungrafted, alberello-trained carricante at 2,788 feet up Etna’s eastern slope. Winemaker Carlo Ferrini soft-presses the grapes and vinifies the wine in stainless steel, spotlighting carricante’s zesty lemon flavors and saline minerality. Tensile acidity keeps the wine tightly wound; it will benefit from another year in bottle, but there’s plenty of potential here.