GIODO Alberelli di Giodo Bianco 'Carricante' - Sicily 2021 Bottle (los)

Description

Alberelli di Giodo 2021 Sicilia Carricante is an exceptional white wine from Sicily’s Etna, showcasing the talent of winemaker Carlo Ferrini. This limited-production wine has received high praise, including 95 points from both The Wine Advocate and James Suckling. It beautifully captures the unique character of the Carricante grape, offering a harmonious balance of citrusy fruit and salty mineral notes. The nose reveals enticing aromas of jasmine, honeysuckle, and sliced pear, with a refreshing and flinty palate that enhances its depth. Decanter awarded it 94 points, praising its bright profile with flavours of lemon and apple. With a drinking window from 2023 to 2032, this wine promises to develop further, revealing even more complexity as it ages.

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THE WINE ADVOCATE 95 points
Drink Date: 2023 - 2030
The irony is that historically Carlo Ferrini's best wines are his reds, and many of those are made in Tuscany. However, this talented winemaker now brings us one of the very best white wines from Sicily's Etna. The Alberelli di Giodo 2021 Sicilia Carricante hits that beautiful intersection between citrusy fruit and salty mineral. The wine is balanced and intense and reveals more complexity that you might expect. We should expect even more as it ages and begins to show some of those lovely Riesling-like petroleum aromas in time. Production is limited to about 3,500 bottles. - Monica Larner

JAMES SUCKLING 95 Points *****
17 Jun, 2022 – Loads of jasmine and honeysuckle with sliced-pear and apple aromas that follow through to a medium body with wonderful depth and intensity. Great length. No wood. Flinty. Pure. Release in January 2023. Drink now.

DECANTER 94 points
Drinking Window: 2023 - 2032
Carricante is Etna's signature white grape, and this unoaked example – just the second vintage, from legendary winemaker, Carlo Ferrini and his daughter, Bianca – captures the unique character of place and grape: Bright and saline, it showcases lemon, lime and apple aromas and flavours. Textured and ripe, it's also very fresh; a stony, salty wave rushes forth followed by subtly creamy lemon posset. The finish is very long, fine and herbal. Glorious. - James Button (at Giodo, Montalcino, 08 Mar 2023)

JANCIS ROBINSON 17 points
Herby citrus. Tight, with riper citrus on the palate and a stony edge to the flavour but a roundness to the texture to balance the high acid. It's good but I don't think it warrants the price except for its rarity value – only 3,000 bottles produced from old vines. Persistent. (JH)