Salty like kissing your loved one on the cheek after they come in from a swim at the beach. There’s dried rose and strawberry, but it's savoury and chalky throughout. Perfect with a bowl of green olives and friends on a sunny winter-esque afternoon.

Passofonduto Giuseppe Cipolla Occhio Di Sale Rosato 2022

This is so summery, you’ll want to drink it all year round. There’s some peach fuzz and concentrated orange peels with balancing saline laced acidity that makes it perfect on a picnic rug with olives and friends. Molto buono!

Terre di Vita Deci Mani Lucido Catarratto 2022

Hailing from Sicily's limestone-heavy soils, this Rosso blend is bright in colour and character. There's a lovely tension and freshness to the fruit, with raspberry, crunchy cherry, and a little red candy tempered by fresh cut herbs and a smattering of sandy tannin. So. Good.

Mortellito Tuttu Rosso 2021

It's fresh and easy-drinking, but with a wonderful streak of richness—think creamy lemon curd, Tarte Tatin, and freshly-picked apricot, all tied together with a sprinkling of salinity. You can almost feel the Sicilian sea breeze on your face.

Giovino Bianco 2021

Each glass opens ripe and plush, with red cherry, blood plum and a mineral edge. There’s some decent weight that’s thrown around in a way that’s not ostentatious. Maybe life makes a little more sense when you’re drinking wines like this because these wines make sense.

Tenute Orestiadi Molino a Vento Nerello Mascalese 2022

I Custodi Antes Etna Bianco Carricante Minella Bianca Graciano 2019

Vinuva Pinot Grigio 2022

Think herbal strawberries, and light red fruits that come through with a savoury, mineral and salty feel. This vintage is still light and lifted, but there’s just a little extra tannin which leaves room for extra ruminating.

Mortellito Rosso Sicilia Calaniuru Frappato Nero d' Avola 2022

Overseen by the maestro dell'Etna himself, Salvo Foti, expect delicate layers of citrus, flint, saline, just a subtle little oxidative note, and the perfect balance of mineral laced acidity.

Alfio Cosentino Vigna Don Paolo Etna Bianco Superiore 2021

Complex, layered and smouldering with volcanic minerality and earthy terracotta. This one feels a little softer and more fruit forward than recent vintages. 80% Nerello Mascalese, and 20% Nerello Cappuccio brings rich, ripe cherry, chestnut and mahogany like tannins and an interplay of berries, stone and earth that really makes you ponder.

I Custodi Pistus Etna Rosso 2021

You can almost see the swimwear tan lines thanks to heavy maritime notes. Full of apricot skins, lemon; preserved, balmed and fresh, fennel and some cut herbs with striking minerality and chalky pith.

I Custodi Aedes Etna Bianco 2022

Feudo Arancio Queto Grillo 2021

This sun soaked red pours with a gorgeous shade of cherry and comes, blushing with fruit and a little wildflower. Grown on 20-year-old vines that run over clay and at 430m elevation, grapes were fermented on skins for seven days, before pressing and eight months in concrete.

Lamoresca Nerocapitano Frappato 2022

Made with an almost even split of Nero d'Avola and Frappato, with a splash of Moscato that is direct pressed and left in concrete for eight months. Sicilian summer in a bottle, it's loaded with citrus that leads to a pleasant bitterness on the finish.

Lamoresca Rosato 2022

A fantastic blend of organically grown Moscato Di Alessandria (or Zibibbo) with Albanello that spent 15 days on skins before maturation in concrete for six months.

Occhipinti SP68 Bianco 2022

It’s full of lemon peel and citrus, and a little fennel that leads to a deliciously chalky finish. This isn’t your typical salty, sea-blessed Sicilian. This one’s all about the inland hills and those little towns where the locals go at their own pace, producing beautiful wines and food, and living well.

Pianogrillo Grillo 2022

Ripe Nero d'Avola packed with fruit and just a smidge of savoury tannin. One of those drops that slips down without a care in the world. Brimming with fruits of the forest and a little liquored boysenberry, this one’s juicy and moreish.

Cellaro Bacaro Nero d'Avola 2022

A nice, textural medium bodied wine with swirling floral aromatics. The palate has some lovely gloss, stone fruit, lime citrus and green melon.

Artigiano Grillo 2022

Cult rosato from fastidious experimentalist Frank Cornelissen, made from a blend of Malvasia, Moscadella, Insolia and Nerello Mascalese, from vineyards scattered across the side of Mt Etna. This year's iteration is delightfully refreshing with red fruit aromatics, some spice and of course, volcanic minerality. Having been transfixed by the distinctive features of the region's wines, the Belgian native decided to lease a few vineyards on Etna's volcanic slopes, and eventually purchased his first plot there in 2001. Cornelissen has since become a hugely influential winemaker in the region, working to a strict minimal intervention philosophy in both the vineyard and winery. Both red and white wines are made with traditional Sicilian varieties which undergo lengthy macerations on skins, before being bottled without filtration or sulphur additions.

Frank Cornelissen Susucaru Rosato 2022

An absolute standout blend of Grecanico Dorato & Carricante (as is to be expected!) with that pure Etna sense of place.