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A' Puddara Etna Bianco Carricante
Etna, Catania, Sicily, Italy
Mineral, magic, charming. The best Etna alive!
Mineral, magic, charming. The best Etna alive!
May 20th, 2015
Etna Bianco comparative wine study. Single vineyard: Milo. 3300ft ASL. Aged in large neutral french oak. 2010 was an amazing vintage for most of Italy, and Federico Curtaz gets Etna fruit. (A Winebow import, I should claim.)
Etna Bianco comparative wine study. Single vineyard: Milo. 3300ft ASL. Aged in large neutral french oak. 2010 was an amazing vintage for most of Italy, and Federico Curtaz gets Etna fruit. (A Winebow import, I should claim.)
Nov 14th, 2014E Puddara Etna Bianco 2011. What a great wine. Showing like an apricot juice that was infused with lemon juice tonight. Heavier palate weight than I recall but lifted with bright chalky aromatics. Carricante the way it was meant to be, I surmise. Not thin and hot like others I've sampled, even if at 14% this it pulls it off effortlessly like a teen beauty queen
E Puddara Etna Bianco 2011. What a great wine. Showing like an apricot juice that was infused with lemon juice tonight. Heavier palate weight than I recall but lifted with bright chalky aromatics. Carricante the way it was meant to be, I surmise. Not thin and hot like others I've sampled, even if at 14% this it pulls it off effortlessly like a teen beauty queen
Aug 20th, 2014Wow this is alluring. Wide entry on the palate, creamy, heavy viscous midpalate weight, but the acid and the crazy powdered chalky minerality on the nose make it such a lively wine it never comes close to burdensome or overly tactile on the palate. It's a bit like a lean Falanghina or a taut off dry Chenin but with even more pointed, assertive, distinguished chalky minerality on the nose. Pear skin, slightly honeyed entry to the lovely puckering lemon-y acid finale. Such an elegant wine! So addictive! So fresh! (Imagining a Doge Cellartracker ID...)
Wow this is alluring. Wide entry on the palate, creamy, heavy viscous midpalate weight, but the acid and the crazy powdered chalky minerality on the nose make it such a lively wine it never comes close to burdensome or overly tactile on the palate. It's a bit like a lean Falanghina or a taut off dry Chenin but with even more pointed, assertive, distinguished chalky minerality on the nose. Pear skin, slightly honeyed entry to the lovely puckering lemon-y acid finale. Such an elegant wine! So addictive! So fresh! (Imagining a Doge Cellartracker ID...)
Feb 14th, 2014
Winemaker Thomas Fogarty Winery
This is very tasty and well structured. Vivid and bright.
This is very tasty and well structured. Vivid and bright.
Jun 20th, 2017
Waxy citrus and mineral, with a bit of that petrol that reminds of Riesling - could be even better with a little time to come together
Waxy citrus and mineral, with a bit of that petrol that reminds of Riesling - could be even better with a little time to come together
Dec 8th, 2019
Delicious light earth lemon. Will look to reload this Sicilian.
Delicious light earth lemon. Will look to reload this Sicilian.
Jul 17th, 2017
2011 en 2016. D'une vivacité prenante, d'une longueur étonnante, グレープフルーツみたいな余韻が本物の果実より綺麗。オレンジなどの柑橘香りはnezの最後に出て、harmonie grandiose aussi bien au nez qu'en bouche. Perçant, complexe, sublime.
2011 en 2016. D'une vivacité prenante, d'une longueur étonnante, グレープフルーツみたいな余韻が本物の果実より綺麗。オレンジなどの柑橘香りはnezの最後に出て、harmonie grandiose aussi bien au nez qu'en bouche. Perçant, complexe, sublime.
Mar 8th, 2016
Real zesty, got the weirdest flavor of teriyaki for a moment
Real zesty, got the weirdest flavor of teriyaki for a moment
May 23rd, 2015