With this article, I’ll be wrapping up feature coverage of last year’s media jaunt to Sicily’s Etna (you can expect quite a few more mini-reviews, however, from producers not given the feature treatment here). Those features (including write-ups of Torre Mora and Passopisciaro) have been meant as a deeper dive into the current Etna wine…
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Big Stairs, Bigger Potential (Visiting Sicily’s Torre Mora)
While Etna’s Torre Mora hasn’t been in modern operation for very long, it’s already off to as good a start as could be hoped. After all, they’re already making the very best rosé in all of Italy. And yeah, I do really mean that. Now part of Italy’s Piccini 1882, the Torre Mora property in…
A Step Ahead (A Look Inside Sicily’s Passopisciaro)
I’m immature enough, even in my 50s (!!), to have had trouble getting my head around the translation of Etna’s Passopisciaro when I visited last year during a media jaunt. Foot step? Pissing step? “Pitchpiss?” You see the travails that I have to deal with when I am scouring some of the most gorgeous locations…
Joe Vs. the Volcano (Exploring Etna Wines for NVWA)
As I finish up an excellent (though whirlwind) jaunt to Collio, my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy has been published, focused (somewhat ironically, considering it’s at the opposite end of Italy from where I’ve just visited) on the wines and producers of Sicily’s Etna. The wine cognoscenti love to wax philosophically about “volcanic”…