One thing we love about wine is finding varietal bottles featuring grapes that are historically used for blending. In the Etna region of Sicily, Nerello Cappuccio is one such grape, often found in small proportions with more commonly grown grapes, like Nerello Mascalese (the dominant red grape of Etna DOC).
So when we stumbled upon a varietal bottle when tasting at Benanti, we were overjoyed. Even better? It was a fantastic bottle, and we bought one of the bottles to age a little bit more at home.
The staff at Benanti recommended not holding onto it for too long, as it was drinking really well at the time, so our curiosity got the best of us about a year later and we opened it up when it was about 11 years old.
What a treat this one was!
