93 points Vinous Media
Drinking Window 2026 - 2030
The 2025 Etna Rosato is so impressive, mixing crushed peaches with chamomile, citrusy spices and spearmint. Luxuriously round and supple, it has brisk acidity to balance as decadently ripe orchard fruits are neatly offset by a crunch of minerality toward the close. It finishes long with a saline inflection. The 2025 is deeply complex and well balanced for the cellar. - By Eric Guido, June 2026

93 points Wine Advocate
The Tenuta delle Terre Nere 2025 Etna Rosato is, according to Marco de Grazia, the best rosé the estate has made in 10 years. First produced in 2008, the wine sees three to four hours of skin contact before being pressed directly into vats. Some lots undergo malolactic fermentation and others do not, allowing the team to balance creaminess and glossiness with brightness. The 2025 has remarkable intensity and a precise point of acidity that gives it depth. Herbal and floral notes add lovely complexity. De Grazia calls it a “wine of the Mediterranean,” and the versatility of Nerello Mascalese is remarkable.

Rosato can also provide an intelligent destination for fruit that does not perform ideally as red wine. Small depressions in the landscape retain humidity, creating problems in wet years, while grapes purchased in cooler Milo do not always achieve the ripeness required for red wine. Harvested earlier, that fruit retains acidity and produces a paler wine with lower alcohol. Organic farming without systemic anti-botrytis treatments makes careful site selection especially important.

Appellation: Etna Rosato D.O.C.
Production area: Municipalities of Castiglione di Sicilia and Randazzo.
Grapes: Nerello Mascalese.
Production: 6 tons per hectare.
Soil: volcanic, mixed from various vineyards.
Exposure: north side of Etna, from 600 to 800 meters above sea level
Age of the vineyards: from 25 to 60 years
Not an easy wine to make. Indeed, quite the opposite: balance is sought on tiptoe. The Platonic ideal, at least as I see it, if I am allowed to express myself so, would be the rosato that has the body of a white and the soul of a red. However, this is what I am looking for: a wine that is joyful without being frivolous; that has tension without being austere. And I feel we are close”. Marco de Grazia