A very late-release wine, the Terrazze dell'Etna 2012 Etna Rosso Cirneco gives us a glimpse at the cellar potential of Nerello Mascalese. From a hot and dry vintage, the wine opens to a darkly saturated appearance with garnet or browning rims. The wine is aging according to schedule I'd say, with budding tertiary notes of smoke, licorice and cured leather. You also taste the ripeness the fruit with some baked plum and blackberry. It is holding firm, but I wouldn't say that the aging has improved the wine. In fact, I would have preferred to taste younger fruit. Production is 20,000 bottles.