100% Carricante

The wine color is pale yellow with greenish tints. The scent is intense, rich, delicate, fruity, with hints of orange blossom and ripe apple. The taste and body is dry, mineral, harmonious with pleasant acidity, aromatic persistence and aftertaste of anise and almond.

Carricante is an under rated white wine and Benanti makes an exceptional one. The tiny town of Milo, with its volcanic sands rich in minerals, is the only area allowed to designate their white wines as Etna Superiore Bianco. In this steep vineyard, composed of numerous small terraces with dry lava stone walls overlooking the Ionian Sea, only Carricante is grown.

Benanti’s roots in Sicily date back to 1734, when a member of the Bolognese family was sent to the island by Vittorio Amedeo d’Aosta. 250 years later, inspired by the local viticultural heritage and dramatic landscape, Giuseppe Benanti (1944-2023) began producing wine from indigenous Etna grapes. Those first vintages shaped what has been the mission of the family ever since: creating wines that celebrate the terroir and soul of Etna, in all its complexity and depth.