Tasting Report: Red and White Wines of Mt. Etna
Sixty recommended Etna Rosso and Etna Bianco wines from my recent trip around the volcano
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Listening Recklessly to Marco de Grazia
At a recent tasting, De Grazia held forth on Etna wine, mountain terroir, and the praxis (and perils) of fine winemaking on the volcano
Reading List: February 6, 2022
Cheese, pizza, prawns, wine, and baseball
Torrone, The Sicilian Not-Too-Sweet Treat
Caffè Sicilia’s exquisite torrone is my new holiday staple.
2019 Donnafugata Floramundi Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Donnafugata’s Floramundi is 70 percent Nero d’Avola and 30 percent Frappato, two of Sicily’s commercially important native grape varieties. The wine ferments in stainless…
2020 Gorghi Tondi Zibibbo Secco Rajàh Sicilia DOC
First, a brief memory: I visited Gorghi Tondi in 2017, a guest of sisters Annamaria and Clara Sala. They are the fourth generation to…
Firriato Gaudensius Blanc de Noir Brut Metodo Classico Etna
Firrato’s traditional-method sparkling wine is made from 100 percent Nerello Mascalese sourced from the northeastern side of Mt. Etna. It spends 30 months en…
2017 Donnafugata Floramundi Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Donnafugata’s Floramundi is a blend of Frappato and Nero d’Avola grown in sandy, calcarious tuff. The 2017 vintage was warm and early, so the…
2016 Santa Tresa Frappato Terre Siciliane
Genial organic Frappato
2017 Donnafugata Grillo Sur Sur Sicilia
Bracing, tropical Grillo
2017 Donnafugata Bianco Anthìlia Sicilia DOC
Snappy lemon-lime Sicilian
2016 Tascante Ghiaia Nera Etna Rosso
Scintillant Etna Rosso