Generazione Alessandro, Etna Bianco DOC (Sicily, Italy) 2018

 This is exactly the kind of white wine that is helping Etna and Sicily kick in the wine world’s door.  It is terrific when the cork is pulled, stone cold out of the refrigerator, and is even better hours later when totally up to room temperature, and seems completely immune to oxidation, so I’d bet on this to still be bulletproof in another 6 or 8 years.  Scents of fruit and stony, salty minerals ride in tandem in the bouquet, and the same holds true on the palate, with excellent depth of flavor in a medium-bodied profile.  The wine’s density is excellent, but it is still very nimble and fresh thanks to piercing acidity that enlivens it through an extremely persistent, mineral-rich finish.  The wine is offered online by Alessandro di Camporeale, which makes extraordinary wines fairly far to the west of Etna, and the online shop shows the red and white Etna bottlings in a separate section, so I honestly don’t know how the two stand in relation to the wines from the main estate.  What I do know is that this is kick-ass wine that should be causing nightmares in Chablis in view of the price it sells for in Italy.  Please, please, somebody wake up and import these to the USA!