Benanti Etna Bianco Contrada Cavaliere 2022

Benanti Etna Bianco Contrada Cavaliere 202291 points Vinous Media Drinking window: 2025 2029 The 2022 Etna Bianco Contrada Cavaliere is youthfully coy with a delicately perfumed mix of wildflowers, white smoke and ginger tinged green apples. Built on purity, its lifted and refined with a burst of saline minerality up front and crisp orchard fruits that add a crunchy sensation toward the close. The 2022 finishes staining and long with youthful tension, a tinge of salinity and a sensation of

This fourth-generation heir apparent to his Salerno-based clan’s income stream—two million bottles per year spread among three wineries—chose a wildly different path

Serve it well-chilled alongside grilled prawns

located at altitudes of 50-100 meters above sea level

showcasing a harmonious balance between rich fruit flavors and a structured profile

This bottling will be ready from 2020

Winemaking is straightforward

2015 shows off the sunny fruits of the year with more grip and intensity than the 2008 and 2012

This polished red displays hints of its Mediterranean heritage with herbaceous bramble while holding true to brooding currant and loamy earth

Its freshness

and a subtle earthy undertone

It has all the timeless notes of California mountain herbals

10-15% 600-litre oak casks (15% 228-litre oak casks used until 2013) 12 months