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This is a remarkable Etna rosso from the northern slopes of Mt Etna which attests to every iota of effort Filippo poured into each bottle! Filippo Mangione is a one-man show on a mission. He wants to assemble a sufficiently broad collection of tiny, disparate, overlooked vineyard sites with vines up to 150 years of age that he can painstakingly farm and cobble together to make extraordinary wines. When other international investors were hoarding land and buying up all that Mt Etna could offer from an agricultural perspective, he naturally moved in this contrarian direction and invested in tiny heirloom vineyards that others overlooked, as the labor required to shuttle between sites to endlessly tend to vines is significant. When Jancis Robinson reached out to him to meet and taste his wines, he immediately replied: "I'm isolated alone at the moment among my vineyards on Etna, struggling to make all the work in the fields by myself. It's very hard, but I don't complain at all.’ He currently operates out of an 1850s palmento, a traditional Etna winery building, in Randazzo, and named after his Calderara Sottana bottling. 'Navigabile' means 'able to be shipped by (sail)boat', and historically referred to a winemaker's finest wines, worthy of export. Filippo works as organically and naturally as possible, intent on revealing the wisdom of his having chosen so many old-vine, tiny production sites. "I like my Navigabile being more "hearty" and tasting a bit almost like blood and delivering that feeling of umami on the aftertaste that to me is quite cool and typical of the volcanic Nerello Mascalese from Etna." - Jonny Lips
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