Vivera, Etna Rosso DOC (Sicily, Italy) 2014

 Very complex and interesting at this stage in its development, this impressive wine is presumably at or near the current release vintage, as this was a press sample sent to me this summer by the producer through Assovini Sicilia.  Still fresh in terms of both fruit (red toned) and acidity but now showing nice tertiary characters, it is appropriately light in body for Etna but with plenty of flavor impact thanks to unobtrusively fine-grained tannins.  It also helps that the wine shows virtually no overt wood character at all, with the tannins bolstered only by quite prominent mineral notes in the finish.