Etna Bianco 2024

Mount Etna is Europe's highest volcano and one of the world's most active. 'a Muntagna, as the locals call it, is rich in mineral components thanks to thousands of years of eruptions and the altitude and climate of warm days and cool nights endow the wines with extraordinary richness, minerality, fragrance and depth. 

Generations of the Faro family have made wine and grown citrus fruit on Etna so it was a homecoming of sorts when Michael Faro and his family established Pietradolce, meaning 'sweet stone', in 2005.

Carricante takes its name from carico, meaning 'charged, loaded, burdened' which refers to the abundant fruit on the vine.  100% Carricante from the northern slopes of Mount Etna, 800 metres above sea level. The vines are bush trained and grown on sandy loam soil. Vinification and maturation are in stainless steel and the wine shows floral and lemon curd notes with pronounced minerality and unabashed acidity typical to Etna.