2023 Giuseppe Cipolla Le Robbe Etna Rosso Region_Bordeaux He's spent the last 15

He's spent the last 15 years restoring the vineyards his family purchased in 1903

Vinified in concrete and aged in old barrique

biodynamic vines

without fining or filtration

lean (12% and change ABV) and hyper-refreshing

2023 Giuseppe Cipolla Le Robbe Etna Rosso Region_Bordeaux He's spent the last 15We can talk about old vines, and then there's "230 year old vines planted on a steep hillside of rocky soils, consisting of gypsum, halite, calcareous sulfur, and other types of salt deposits from the Messinian period" kind of old vines. Giuseppe Cipolla? He's working with the latter, his family's property in Passofonduto sits about 25 kms from the south coast of central Sicily, a landscape of steep outcrops that was once a source of salt and sulfur.