Vino di Anna “Q1000 Tartaraci Rosso" 2022

Anna Martens and Eric Narioo,Mount Etna, Sicily 

Anna Martens and Eric Narioo made their first wine together on Mount Etna in 2008. In 2010, the couple purchased their first vineyard of old bush vines of Nerello Mascelese in Contrada Crasà, along with a neighbouring, derelict Etnean palmento and wine cellar.
Today, with a team of locals, they cultivate organically, eight hectares of terraced land, divided into small vineyard plots and olive groves scattered across the north face of the volcano. Grapes are hand harvested in September and October and fermented into a range of natural wines, expressive of their “terroir”.
The estate also produces an extra virgin olive oil and rears the rare Sicilian black bee.

The Vino di Anna “Qvevri” wines are not made every year. The grapes need to be in
perfect health and have a depth of flavour and complexity to warrant this type of
vinification. The qvevris were handmade by one of the few remaining artisan qvevri
makers, Zaaliko Bodjadze in his workshop about two hours west of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Zaaliko and his sons source the pure clay high in the Caucasus Mountains, moulding the
pots by hand. Vino di Anna have nine qvevris buried in their cellar of varying sizes.

'Q1000 Tartaraci,' was last released in 2016. Since then, isolated hail and mixed growing and ripening conditions have not permitted for a red wine to be made from this extreme, high-altitude contrada (1000 meters above sea level).

Organic