Murgo, Etna Rosso

SommSelect Editorial Director David Lynch returns with a few words on one of our top offerings of 2016, now back in a new vintage:One of the most popular red wines we offered in all of 2016 was the 2014 Etna Rosso from Murgo—a wine that delivers so much authenticity and pleasure for under $20 that you end up chastising yourself for not getting more when you had the chance. Over the last few months, in fact, we’ve offered several truly transcendent wines at this price point, and honestly, nothing gets us more jazzed; whenever I can steer someone away from some mass-produced Coca-Cola wine and toward a real wine of place for the same money, I feel like I’ve done something good with my life. So I’m feeling good today: The recently released 2015 Etna Rosso from Murgo picks right up where the ’14 left off, transporting us to one of the world’s most exotic and dynamic wine zones—Sicily’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, where the reds from the native Nerello Mascalese deliver ar