From a half-hectare monopole adjacent to San Lorenzo, the Tenuta delle Terre Nere 2024 Etna Rosso Dagala di Bocca d’Orzo is a 1,500-bottle release, compared to just 900 bottles in 2023. Marco de Grazia discovered the tiny vineyard and its little house while planting in San Lorenzo, purchasing the parcel in 2018 and producing the first vintage in 2019. The Sicilian word "dagala" describes an island of land surrounded by lava. This has a darker and more emphatically volcanic character, combining the unrelenting rigor of Calderara with the richness of San Lorenzo. Austere and tight, it recalls a dark lava-stone wall. The wine plays on depth, tension and volcanic power, holding firm without letting go.
98 points, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (Sep 2026)
The 2024 Etna Rosso Bocca d'Orzo is spicy in the glass, bursting with notes of crushed strawberries and cherries, cloves, dried roses and cedar. This lights up the palate with bright acidity and a cool-toned feel, coming across as energetic and spry as soft-textured depths of wild berry fruit cascade throughout. The 2024 reverberates with zesty tension, structured and long. This is a thrilling, drop-dead-gorgeous Etna Rosso.
98 points, Eric Guido, Vinous (Sep 2026)
Expressive aromas of plums, cherries, smoke, dark chocolate and sandalwood follow through to a full body with a tight, dense center palate and plenty of juicy fruit in the finish. Lots of concentration but not heavy or coarse. Classy and intense. Drink or hold.
98 points, James Suckling (Jun 2026)
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