Etnella - Hybris 2025

Hybris 2025 is a natural wine crafted by Etnella, in the Sicily region in Italy. This red wine is made with Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Grenache grapes.Etnella is Davide Bentivegna, working alone on the north-eastern slope of Mount Etna from the farm at Notti Stellate. He is Sicilian but came to wine late, leaving a corporate job in Milan and learning first from an elderly neighbour who had a single vineyard, then from Stefano Bellotti, Aldo Viola and Frank Cornelissen. His plots are spread across several contrade between 600 and 1,000 metres, the vines trained low in the local alberello bush style that rules out any machine, with the old dry-stone terraces rebuilt and olive and fruit trees planted among the rows. Each label carries a red dot and a number, and the number is the altitude of that plot.Hybris, which he used to call Tracotanza, comes from 80 year old vines at 1,000 metres, the highest fruit he farms. Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio with a little Grenache, eight days on skins, then cement. 14% alcohol, and another DOC bottling.We have not yet tried this wine, and nothing has been published for the 2025 vintage. We will add our own notes once we have opened a bottle.