A pale yellow color, the 2022 Etna Bianco Pietrarizzo has a more focused personality, with lovely petrol-like accents, fresh white peach, floral perfume, honeyed fresh lemon, and stony earth. Medium-bodied, it's got fantastic tension and sapidity. It was aged in neutral and used French oak barrels. It's got a lot to offer now, although it also has the ability to improve over the next 3-4 years. Drink 2025-2035.
93 points, Audrey Frick, Jeb Dunnuck (Oct 2025)
Tornatore's Pietrarizzo continues to show the depth and allure of white wines from Etna, with an intensely saline nose that offers citrus zest and slate, lifted with white-flower petals and white peaches. The palate is lemon, white pepper, seashells and gravel, but also more stone fruit and hints of prickly pear and guava. The briny, flinty foundation has an acid rebar that confirms this can take some age and become even more exciting in five to eight years.
93 points, Danielle Callegari, Wine Enthusiast (Dec 2022)
A lovely range of creamed apple, baked peach, lemon oil and Marcona almond is underscored by a tangy streak of salinity, working in tandem with well-cut acidity to bring fine definition to the round and creamy profile. Fragrant spice and mountain herb notes linger on the finish. Carricante and Catarratto. Drink now through 2035. 1,583 cases made, 1,583 cases imported.
92 points, Alison Napjus, Wine Spectator (Dec 2024)
The Tornatore 2022 Etna Bianco Pietrarizzo is 97% Carricante and 3% Catarratto, aged in large oak casks for five months. Pietrarizzo has more elevation, and therefore more freshness, at 700 meters above sea level and is one of the highest plots farmed by this estate. You also get a crunchy quality of fruit with unripe peach and crispy apple over a mid-weight finish. The finish, however, is slightly sweet.
91 points, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (Apr 2025)
Restrained lemon peel, almond paste and smoky highlights. Smooth attack with crisp acidity, good integration and maturity, lean to medium body and an appley finish. Carricante and a splash of catarratto. Sustainable. Drink now.
91 points, Aldo Fiordelli, James Suckling (May 2024)
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