Tag: Volcanic wine

Vinography Images: Magic Hill
Once an underwater volcano, the tiny hill of Somló in Hungary is home to some of the world’s most compelling

Island Wines: A Seminar
Anyone lucky enough to have been to an island paradise knows just how special it feels. There’s a certain quality

The Volcano Beckons: A Return to Etna
Few things on this earth are more symbolic of change than a volcano itself. As their intermittent cataclysms reshape the

Forgotten Wine Island: Tasting a Few Madeiras
There was once a time when everyone who was anyone in the world drank Madeira. Just ask America’s Founding Fathers,

Vinography Images: Otherworldly Wine
A view looking down on the town and vineyards of Taganana on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 6/6/21
Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them

Book Review: The New Wines of Mount Etna by Benjamin North Spencer
Let’s get the disclaimer right out of the way, shall we? I positively adore the wines of Mount Etna, the

Volcano’s Elixir: The wines of Somló, Hungary
I was on my third day in paradise when I had one of those flashes of insight that wine writers