Approaching five years of age, this lovely wine grown on the slopes of Sicily’s Mount Etna is fresh and silky smooth. It is made by Stef and Ciri Biondi, whose family has been making wines since the beginning of the 1900s from vineyards they have owned since the 1600s. Etna’s super star white grape, Carricante is supported by the addition of Minella, Malvasia, Catarrato and Moscatello dell’Etna. Its name comes from the Greek Outis, which is Nessuno in Italian, “nobody" in English. It is the name Ulysses gave to Polyfemous the Cyclops on the foothills of Mount Etna.
Ciro Biondi, Etna Bianco DOC (Sicily, Italy) 2018
By Rebecca Murphy