"Odedi"

9.1

Dark purple in color with a short reddish rim.

Strong and fruity nose of blackberries, black currants, black plums, cooked cherries, cedar, black pepper, vanilla, licorice, light spices and milk chocolates.

Full-bodied with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry and very fruity on the palate with black currants, plums, cooked cherries, spices, cedar, licorice, cola, chocolates, tobacco and light herbs.

Long finish with round tannins and tangy cherries.

This 5 year old California red blend is drinking very nicely now.

Rich and extracted. Fruit forward and complex. Nicely balanced with a nice mouthfeel.

This Single Vineyard is soft and buttery. Spicy and bold. Tangy and very entertaining. The high alcohol is somewhat showing.

Good right out of the bottle, and better after 45 minutes of airtime.

Good by itself, and will also pair nicely with a big piece of steak.

A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Malbec, Petite Sirah, Mourvedre, Grenache and Zinfandel. Aged for 10 months in French and American Oak barrels.

14.9% alcohol by volume.

91 points.

$20. — 5 months ago

Will Rogers

9.6

Incredible Italian wine. Grapes on the side of a volcano! Steak dinner at home. — 3 years ago

Vanessa

9.0

Etna Rosso 😆 - wow, this has a beautiful bouquet, with notes of blood orange, orange blossom, cherry, strawberry, tomato leaf, and oregano 🌿

This wine comes from Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 It is made of Nerello Mascalese grapes grown on Mount Etna, at 700 meters elevation, an active volcano, offering beautiful fruit expression and balance. It’s elegant and complex. ABV is 13.5%.

Thank you 🙏 @h_obf @sommnow for introducing us to this highly drinkable, smooth, and delicious bottle.

Pietro Caciorgna, Guardoilvento, Etna Rosso, Sicily, Italy. Vintage 2017. — 5 years ago

Martinez

9.1

Sharp, flinty Listán Blanco (aka Palomino, the grape most Sherry is made from) from approximately 100-year-old ungrafted vines from several small plots on the slopes of the Teide, a dormant 12,000 ft high volcano on the island of Tenerife. Fermented in concrete, partially skin-macerated, partially aged under flor (like Sherry). Elegant, complex. Subtly smoky, with nutty, yeasty aromas. Saline, crushed stone, minerals and some notes of citrus (grapefruit) 🌋🔥🔥🔥 — 6 years ago

Janell

9.0

different...nutty and sweet.. — 7 years ago

Anthony Burley

9.7

Smooth and dry. Fruit forward and crisp — 7 years ago

Abbas Zand

9.0

Brassfield estate Eruption 2021 red blend High Valley appellation, Volcano ridge vineyard.

This is a dry red wine. Jammy nose. Full bodied, medium acidity, high alcohol but not tasting like a high alcohol wine. Enveloping tannins. Flavors of blackberries, blueberries, dried herbs, bay leaf, earthy, long finish.
Cab, syrah, malbec, petit sirah, mourvedre, zin.
$14.9% alcohol.
Lake county. — 6 months ago

Aaron Petersen

9.8

Needs decanting to open up. Earthy black currant flavor with sweet tangy finish. The vineyard is by a dormant volcano. — 3 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.3

My new Favorite white, just love mountain fruit! Named for mountain range dividing Napa & Sonoma, old stone winery dug into side of dormant volcano crater in 1889, remained in production ever since. Pale lemon with aromas of Tropical and stone fruit with complex spice and blossom notes. On the palate apple, pear and citrus zest flavors with light oak and honey tones, fresh and vibrant, well integrated. Long finish ending with flinty mineral characteristics. Long aging potential. Nice! — 5 years ago

Alder Yarrow

Wine Blogger Vinography

9.3

Quite reduced at first, with lots of struck match and brimstone funk, but with some air this blossomed into a crunchy lean boysenberry and sour cherry medley mixed with chopped herbs and deeply stony minerality. Great acidity. Taste the volcano mateys! From the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain, this mostly Listan Prieto (aka Mission or Pais) with a little of Tintillo, red wine is light on the palate and quite refreshing. Sulfur is added only at bottling, otherwise this juice is simply put into old barrels to do its thing. — 5 years ago

Jodi Suguitan

8.9

Cream, lemon, some tropical notes of slight ripe pineapple, and def minerality. @ Room Cucina in Siracusa — 6 years ago

Anthony Burley

9.5

Medium bodied and fruit forward — 7 years ago

Randy Fuller

9.2

This Sicilian wine smells and tastes like Burgundy with a volcano. The nose carries earthy-yet-floral notes on a mineral base. The palate is not like Pinot Noir, but not like Sangiovese, either. It paired much better with the involtini than it did with the tomato sauce spaghetti. I guess the grape blend - Nerellos Mascalese and Cappuccio - like eggplant better. It showed a bit of brown around the edge, not something you see often in a young wine. — 7 years ago

Chip Habegger

9.1

Nearly 8 years old and the acidity is still off the charts. Love it. Little smoky note on the nose and rocky notes at the end—so volcano. Lots of cherry with a bit of raspberry zip in the middle. Moderate-minus tannins. Wish it lingered longer. — 10 months ago

Brandon Boesch

9.4

Love this! Earth, fruit, plants, herbs, volcano! So good with food. On its own there’s a lot of dried herbs, tart fruit, pepper, a bit of greenery, blood orange, flint, and still some dried fruit but not sweet at all. Will get some more. — 2 years ago

Gene Buonviri

8.9

As you open this wine you begin a trip to the arch of Italy’s boot. Although this southern, mountainous region has a few small vineyards under vine. The big red grape Aglianico is limited to the slopes of an extinct volcano Mount Vulture. Notes of blackberry, black cherry and wild herbs. Well-balanced and tamed. On hold for 5 years and it’s sensational. — 4 years ago

Jiga Hitorn

9.1

Candied dark fruits. Bright structure, medium body. Can taste the volcano — 5 years ago

Weston Mallgren

8.9

Sharp lemon and minerality. So different than many other whites floating around this price range. — 6 years ago

Janell

9.5

wow! Scott gives this one a 10.5.. — 7 years ago

Gil Krakowsky

9.1

An incredibly expressive and terroir-driven wine that might be one of the world’s best wine values. Volcanic microclimate shines clearly through a heady nose whose first bite is not just smoke but...smoking volcano. Along that sweet dark fruit, grilled lavender, flowers. In the palate more primary with black cherries (grilled black cherries???) exotic spices, cooked black pepper, bay leaf, sage, that sanguine element that screamed high-iron volcanic soil, all held together by a very sitinctive salty spine. Finishes with a long note of those herbs and some drying tannins. Very juicy but with good structure and medium acidity avoiding any sense of being cloying. A really unique, transparent and well made wine that is an astounding value. I wonder whether it improves with age or is at its best here... — 7 years ago