Terre Nere Wine Estate

The Mystical Spell of Mount Etna, Sicily It all began with a glass of wine in a downtown Chicago restaurant. A single sip from a bottle of Etna Rosso stopped us mid-conversation. It wasn’t from France—it was from a volcano. From Mount Etna, Sicily. The wine came from a tiny vineyard called Guardiola Contrada, high on the northern slopes of of a live volcano. The moment we tasted it, we felt it calling to us. The same call that had drawn Marco de Grazia to these slopes two decades earlier—so powerful, he never left. Marco followed his vision to craft high-quality cru wines from Mount Etna’s ancient, terraced vineyards. We followed ours to find the source. Today, we meet at Terre Nere—where lava, light, and philosophy meet together with the wine. Terre Nere is the Burgundy of Sicily, not just in spirit, but in structure: site-specific wines from micro-terroirs, classified and crafted with elegance and precision. Here, wine is more than a drink. It’s a dialogue with the mountain.