Frank Cornelissen Terre Siciliane Susucaru Rosato 2025 750ml

ITALY : SICILY : ETNA

ORGANIC : Nerello Mascalese, Malvasia, Moscadella, Catarratto

LIGHT-BODIED, CRUSHED STRAWBERRY, WATERMELON RIND, SALINE, VOLCANIC SMOKE, NO OAK

Frank Cornelissen calls this a rosato, but he is just as happy to have you treat it as a light red — closer to a Jura red than anything pale and polished from Provence.

Malvasia, Moscadella and Catarratto go in alongside Nerello Mascalese, all hand-harvested, old-vine fruit from the estate's parcels in Etna's northern valley. The 2025 spent about ten days on the skins, then fermented on native yeasts and aged in neutral epoxy tanks, unfined. It lands on crushed strawberry and watermelon rind, with a salty, smoky volcanic finish.

Susucaru sits at the entry point of the Cornelissen range, made with the same estate philosophy as the MunJebel and Magma bottlings. Serve it cool, not ice-cold, and give it a few minutes in the glass.

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