97pts James Suckling

Perfumed floral aromas are enchanting with flint and matchstick undertones. Medium-bodied and focused with precise flavors of honeysuckle, sliced pineapple and pears. Flinty, intense finish with lots of pine needles and sea salt. Drink now.

93pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The Maugeri 2023 Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Volpare Frontebosco (with 6,200 bottles created) comes from a vineyard adjacent to a forest with ancient stone terracing, as its name "Frontebosco" suggests. It's not just the power of suggestion, because you do pick up on hints of balsam herb or forest floor beyond white fruit and peach. The wine ages on lees for eight months (with no malolactic fermentation and no bâtonnage). These techniques (or lack thereof) contribute to the wine's linear and punchy style. This is a charming and fun-drinking wine.

91pts Vinous

The 2023 Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Volpare Frontebosco opens in the glass with a confectionery air that blows off to reveal crushed apple, pear and white smoke. This is tense upon entry, with brisk acidity and citrus tones up front that give way to mineral-inflected nectarines. Long and gently structured, the 2023 finishes fresh with a slight herbal thrust.

Tasting Notes

Pale yellow color; aroma and flavor of wet stones, with hints of citrus and the wild herbs that surround the vineyard. 

Winery Notes

Maugeri is the wine-growing project of an Etnean family, who have returned to their home district to make wine once more. The unbroken line of more than 2.8 km of lava dry-stone walling borders the 7 hectares of the property, an amphitheatre of fertile volcanic soil, in a close embrace with the Mediterranean landscape.