Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso San Lorenzo 2023
Country: Italy Region: SanLorenzo Marche Vintage: 2023
Grape Variety : 95% Nerello Mascalese 5% Nerello Cappuccio
Category: Red Wine Style: Dry
Producer: Marco de Grazia
James Suckling Overall Italian Wine of The Year 2025
'The remarkable floral style includes bright, leesy character, deep blood oranges, red cherries and cinnamon. Fleshy palate with full body, crisp and refreshing acidity and velvety tannins with a slightly dusty yet ripe texture. Very well-packed, fine-tuned and long. Drinkable now but best from 2026'
James Suckling, September 2025.
The Top 100 Wines of Italy of 2025 underscore the rising influence of Mount Etna as a world-class wine region and the growing need for high-quality Italian wines to remain reasonably priced. Today’s drinkers value wines with freshness, drinkability and character but they don't want to spend a fortune for them. We hope wine producers take that message to heart when they read this.
In our search, we’ve looked for what last century’s influential Italian wine and food writer Mario Soldati, in Vino al Vino (1971), called “good wine in spite of the label” – bottles that rise above marketing trends and offer a more honest, transparent view of Italian winemaking at its best. If Soldati were alive today, Etna would likely top his list. The volcanic vineyards of Mount Etna – planted on steep slopes reaching up to 750 meters – continue to produce wines of singular identity, shaped by their minerality, balance and tension.
Etna wines are no longer just a trend. They’re competing with the world’s best while maintaining their sense of place. With vivid fruit, racy acidity and vibrant energy, Etna reds and whites are compelling on release – and at under $80 a bottle, they offer exceptional value.
One of the clearest examples of that potential is the Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso, James Suckling's overall Italian Wine of the Year. Made from nerello mascalese planted in the 1950s, it captures pure volcanic expression with aromas of wild herbs, blood orange, red cherry and cinnamon. The palate is fleshy and full-bodied yet lifted by crisp acidity and silky tannins.
