95 points Wine Advocate
Drink Date: 2024 - 2040
One of the best wines from the volcano is this always overachieving blend of 97% Nerello Mascalese and 3% Nerello Cappuccio. The Girolamo Russo 2022 Etna Rosso San Lorenzo draws its fruit from 80-year-old vines at an ideal (or I should say ideal for Etna) 780 meters in elevation. The cooling breezes and strong luminosity of these elevations help to contribute to the freshness of the wine and its beautifully intense aromas. There is wild cherry, violet and Sicilian blood orange. Maceration times extend to 18 days, and the wine ages in used barrique for 18 months. The wine's attractive dark ruby shine leads to a long-lasting and very polished mouthfeel. This is a release of 6,000 bottles.

95 points Vinous Media
Drinking Window 2026 - 2034
The 2022 Etna Rosso San Lorenzo is a spice box, with depths of cloves, cinnamon sticks, orange shavings, incense and sweet smoke forming its irresistible bouquet. This is elegant in style with velvety textures, yet it has an energetic persona. Red and blue fruits wash across the palate, leaving a sensation of liquid stone in their wake. Violet and lavender tones linger long through the finish as fine-grained tannins flex and hints of licorice slowly fade. The balance here is unreal, making the 2022 the most complete of Girolamo Russo's current releases. - By Eric Guido on May 2025

Typical mix of varieties:
Nerello Mascalese 97%
Nerello Cappuccio 3%

San Lorenzo is a single vineyard wine from a contrada in Randazzo. It sits 750-780 meters above sea level and the vines are now over 80 years old. The entire vineyard is around 8 hectares but only the oldest 1 hectare parcel of vines is selected for the single contrada bottling. The rest is used for A Rina and the Rosato. The wine is almost entirely Nerello Mascalese but also have very small amounts of Nerello Cappuccio since the varieties are co-planted. San Lorenzo is fermented in a combination of formats - 2,600 liter barrels, cement, and vat.