Etnella - Kaos Bianco 2025

Kaos Bianco 2025 is a natural wine crafted by Etnella, in the Sicily region in Italy. This orange wine is made with Carricante, Catarratto, Malvasia, Moscato and Trebbiano 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 Bianco comes off vines between 40 and 90 years old at 750 metres. It is picked three times, and each picking macerates on skins for a different length of time, two days, four days and seven days, before the wine goes into steel. This wine changes between white and orange each vintage, but this 2025 is more white. 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.