Frank Cornlissen's MAGMA wine is an iconic win in the natural wine world.
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Frank Cornelissen needs little introduction as an iconic winemaker of the natural wine scene.
His volcanic wines have a true sense of place, reflecting the terroir of Mount Etna and the full expression of it's native grape varietal, Nerello Mascalese.
MAGMA is the grand cru of his Munjebel rosso range is both powerful & elegant. Make no mistake, this is a big wine at 15.5%. A wine that deserves respect, and room to breathe, to age. Now a 2020 bottlings, you have a head start on that.
The vines were planted in 1920, at 910m high. This is the most special of Frank Cornelissen's wines
The legendary writing is painted by Frank Cornelissen's wife personally.
Fans of his entry level, more accessible Susucaru / Contadino range take note, this is a very different style of wine, better suited for special occasions.
This is a RARE find.
Frank Cornelissen's reports on the 2020 vintage
The real winter came only end of January but with good snow; the pruning was finished late as we had to do some corrective pruning in a new vineyard which took more time than planned. The rest of the season was relatively balanced and we slide into the harvest pretty smoothly with stress for some of the workers to get COVID and send the whole team in quarantine… it was very stressful to keep everybody safe and sound but we managed with lots of precautions. Harvest went pretty easy as the nice weather was continuing until late autumn. A nice compensation to the COVID stress!
The reds have a nice balance and I like the structure of the wines as tannins are present and all fits nicely. Magma was picked in perfect zodiac and I was really happy. The Bianco Vigne Alte will be promising.
