The art of giving knows no bounds. Transferable gift cards are the perfect way to show the wine lover in your life how much you care. Etna Wine School is happy to announce our new gift card program starting with this holiday season.
It’s been quite a week. The New Wines of Mount Etna received the coveted Gourmand Award and the New York Times listed the book in a write-up about the year’s best wine books. We figured we can’t finish the week without a third special announcement. TODAY ONLY WE ARE OFFERING THE EPUB version of the …
In the coming weeks we will be launching a new website with an online digital classroom for distance learners interested in the wines of Mount Etna.
It’s nice writing a book. You get to dive in to the weeds of research, interviews, and editing to find the little pieces of gold that tie the story together. It’s also nice to read a book, and speak with the author after you’ve closed the cover and placed it on the shelf. Doriana Briguglia, …
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Today, we publish The New Wines of Mount Etna, the first book about the people who live and make wine on Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano.
Note: Locations referenced in the following text can be found in the map above The Phoenicians may have been fine merchants and salesmen, but it took the arrival of the Greeks to imprint the concept of true viticulture in Sicily. In 734 BCE, a small fertile valley was settled at the northeast opening of the …
The 16th and 17th centuries were hard on Etna inhabitants. Multiple, very damaging, prolonged eruptions resculpted the territory, devastated the landscape, displaced residents, wiped out villages, and buried valuable agricultural space. One eruption was particularly destructive. Following several days of strong earthquakes, a collapse in Mount Etna’s central crater on March 11, 1669 forced open …
I found the following note in a memoir I stumbled upon while doing research for my book about the wines and wineries of Mount Etna. The memoir, “Unprotected Females In Sicily, Calabria, And On The Top Of Mount Etna” was written by Helen Lowe and published by Routledge, in London, in 1859. The memoir is …
In late-December 2014, we shot our first commercial for the wine tours and educational experiences we offer through The Etna Wine School™. It was a lot of fun. Our staff spent the day with a great director and his team, going to the places we frequent for our wine classes on Mount Etna – including Monaci …
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