Girolamo Russo

The Girolamo Russo estate was founded in 2005 by Giuseppe Russo, in memory of his late father. The family are native of Passopisciaro, one of the key villages at the heart of the rebirth of Etna’s most important grape variety, Nerello Mascalese.
This is the north face of Europe’s largest active volcano, Mount Etna, in the north-eastern corner of Sicily. The Russos have 26 hectares of land in and around Passopisciaro, with 15 hectares of viney...

Some lava flows are very recent, too recent even to plant on. The area is broken up into sectors known as ‘contradas’. Each contrada has a name and is linked to one of Etna’s townships. So San Lorenzo – which is the largest and highest contrada the Russos own vineyards in – is close to the town of Randazzo. Feudo is nearby, also near Randazzo, whereas Feudo di Mezzo is closer to Castiglione di Sicilia. Due to its positioning on the layers of l...