Frank Cornelissen

'Munjebel Bianco' 2022

A distinctive Etna white crafted from Grecanico and Carricante that opens with crystalline citrus, wet stone and sea-spray minerality. There’s a racy, saline core balanced by herbal nuance and gentle textural weight, reflecting the high-altitude volcanic soils from which it’s born. With Cornelissen’s minimal intervention philosophy, this white reveals complexity and vertical freshness without artifice, delivering a white that’s as expressive as it is refreshing. 

Frank Cornelissen is one of the main figures behind today’s Etna wines’ popularity. He established his estate in 2001 on the northern part of the Sicilian Island, back when Etna as a wine region was relatively still undiscovered. 

Frank farms 24 hectares of vines mostly planted to the indigenous variety Nerello Mascalese, in the most traditional way, avoiding all treatments where possible. Instead, the estate idealises inter-plantation of fruit trees and beehives to regain a complex ecosystem. 

From the Estate range to the single vineyard cuvées (specific crus with individual expressions, produced and bottled only in exceptional vintages), the wines showcase the incomparable volcanic terroir with intensity and uniqueness – textural, yet with lively freshness and endless length.