We do not arrive at Graci’s wines by chance: what governs every astonishing taste of these Etna with the unmistakable territorial brand is a leap on the northern slopes of the imposing Sicilian volcano in Passopisciaro, where the altitudes in some points exceed 1000 meters above sea level of the sea and the sapling-cultivated vines often reach 100 years of age.

In this evocative agricultural strip dominated by roughness, where however every environmental element describes the profound balance of the creative energy of the earth, the Graci company has created a real poetics of the terroir, made up of distinctive elements: exclusive cultivation of native vines such as Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, Catarratto and Carricante, absolute restriction on interventions in the vineyard and in the cellar (with no recourse to weeding in the field or to barriques for refinement), exaltation of the constructive differences between the vineyards and of the main characteristics of each vintage.

Thus, in the production centers of the Arcuria and Barbabecchi districts, the vine is expected to have its proper fulfillment, with harvests that sometimes arrive in November due to the altitude, without any need to intervene to speed up the process by taking shortcuts. Graci’s desire to produce wines that focus entirely on truth and expressive authenticity is based on these foundations: to complete the task, there is nothing better than Nerello Mascalese, an excellent interpreter of the variability that characterizes each vintage and each vineyard.

Graci’s Etna Rosso is born from these grapes, nourished by volcanic soils in its mineral exploitation, with a clear freshness and strong of incomparable drinkability, with a geographical reflection that becomes a fundamental key for the complex geometry of each taste