Etnella - Kaos Rosso 2024

Kaos Rosso 2024 is a natural wine crafted by Etnella, in the Sicily region in Italy. This red wine is made with Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio 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. Kaos Rosso is 85% Nerello Mascalese with 15% Nerello Cappuccio from 700 metres, picked three times across the harvest, early, main and late. Fifteen days on skins with some whole bunches, then steel and oak.