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#🤫 ... The wines are resting ... #somewhereOnETNA

This is a lively #EtnaRosato with which to whisk a

This is a lively #EtnaRosato with which to whisk away a Sunday afternoon. From @irenebadala_etna_winery in #cdaSantoSpirito #2018EtnaRosato
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THE NEW WINES OF Mt. ETNA - ON SALE DEC 17, 2019 a

THE NEW WINES OF Mt. ETNA - ON SALE DEC 17, 2019 at EtnaReport.com and EtnaWineSchool.com . See link in bio ☝🏻 #plsShare + #repost
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Everything about Mount Etna arrives in small measures. Frequent changes in topography, elevation, sunlight, wind, and soils influence the color, aromas, and flavors of a wine, but every neighbor also has an idea of how best to interpret the grapes, terrain, and vintage. This is part of what makes these volcanic wines so exciting. They often escape the cross hairs of precise definition.
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Thirty years ago this wasn’t the case. Vineyards growing on the slopes of the volcano Mount Etna were nearly abandoned. Now there are more than one hundred estates making some of the finest wines in the world.
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This kind of rapid change doesn’t come easy. In The New Wines of Mount Etna, An Insider’s Guide to the History and Rebirth of a Wine Region, American wine expert Benjamin Spencer explores the practices, history, and joy of making wine on Europe’s largest active volcano.
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BUY THE BOOK – The New Wines of Mount Etna will go on sale DECEMBER 17, 2019 ... Orders placed at ETNAREPORT.com or ETNAWINESCHOOL.com will be fulfilled after January 25, 2020.
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This early-release special gives you a chance to order the paperback version of the book before our official publishing date.
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DM us if you have questions 🥂
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The #Etna landscape we see today is more than 200k

The #Etna landscape we see today is more than 200k years old, and the volcano stands 10k’ (3400 m) over the Ionian Sea, in eastern #Sicily.
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This perpetually erupting mound of sand and rock has more than seven major stratifications, three hundred lateral craters, multiple fault lines, and more than 30 unique compositions of volcanic debris.
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A little more than 15,000 years ago, the effusive #Ellitico volcano erupted and the magma chamber collapsed, leaving behind the (purple) crater at the top center of the photo.
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Over several thousand years the that massive spent crater filled with snowmelt and rain, until a flank slip of the Ellitico crater caused a landslide that reached the sea (bottom center of photo).
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That landslide (8,000 years ago) wasn’t only devastating for Etna inhabitants. It created a tsunami that reached North Africa, Greece, and the Levantine Coast.
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Today, we plant #Carricante and #Nerello here, alongside olives and citrus and scores of fruits and nut trees. We live and work and play here. When the volcano erupts, we take photos and videos of it, we don’t run. We record and study it .
For us, Mount Etna is not threatening. She is benevolent. She is majestic but the stories of her past and present have scars. That said, nothing gives pause to the volcano. She continues to give and take away, without plan or project.
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This is part of what makes these wines so exciting. They are grown and produced where water and fire meet. In a way, the winemakers here are learning from the mountain. Some times you change, others you remain the same.
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This post based on themes found in THE NEW WINES OF MOUNT ETNA, a book by Benjamin Spencer @wordsnwine (Gemelli Press, 2019)
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Learn more at @etnareport .
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So, this just arrived in the mail 📚🎉 . After

So, this just arrived in the mail 📚🎉
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After three years of research, more than 250 hours of interviews, and months of writing and editing and design, we are finally publishing the first book about #MountEtna wines and wineries in English.
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THE NEW WINES OF MOUNT ETNA
An Insider’s Guide to the History and Rebirth of a Wine Region
Benjamin Spencer DipWSET
Foreword by @susanhulmemw .
For those of you who have contributed anything to this journey, THANK YOU.
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We’ll be making additional announcements in the next weeks at EtnaWineSchool.com and the NEW website EtnaReport.com
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Feel free to contact me with questions. And share this post widely along with the tag #NWOME . I look forward to seeing you all very soon.
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Friends and guests who have been to the American s

Friends and guests who have been to the American southwest or Mexico often notice the proliferation of Prickly Pear cactus around Mount Etna. While it appears endemic to the area, the edible, fruiting cactus is an import. It started to arrive on the island during Spanish rule, at the end of the fifteenth century.
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But why?
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Read our article here:
https://etnawineschool.com/2019/11/19/a-brief-history-of-the-fico-dindia-on-mount-etna/

One of the many things people rarely speak about i

One of the many things people rarely speak about is cleanliness in the winery.
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Before, during and after fermentation, it’s crucial to keep spillage to a minimum. Juice (must/mosto) inevitably finds a way into strange places. Wine tanks and barrels frequently degas. Small amounts of sugar and ethanol seep out of cracks, gaskets, and valves. .
Water works. So do chemicals – bases and acids – but high-pressure steam is a great way to clear residues that attract flies and incubate bacteria.
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Good work @pietradolce !
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Mount #Etna is a #volcanic terroir with dynamic ch

Mount #Etna is a #volcanic terroir with dynamic changes in elevation, soil, and weather.
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In this one photo we see rainclouds interrupted by intense sunlight; the fertility of the soil and the lignification of the vines; the sloped terrain broken up into workable terraces; and the small hill at the edge of the vineyard, which is the tail of a #lava flow born 4k years ago.
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Nothing about #MtEtna is ‘simple’ but the wines made here are infinitely approachable and exciting. Not only for how they smell and taste and pair with a range of international cuisine, but for the stories they tell.
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One year of hand work in an #Etna #vineyard reduce

One year of hand work in an #Etna #vineyard reduced to one minute.
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This message and video by @barone_beneventano
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We are proud to make so many sacrifices to safeguard the traditions and natural heritage of Etna 🌋 Remember these images when you taste our wine, it will not taste the same. Ours is not just a wine
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Un anno di #lavoro #manuale riassunti in 1 minuto 👩‍🌾
Orgogliosi di fare tanti #sacrifici per salvaguardare le #tradizioni e il patrimonio naturalistico dell'#Etna 🌋
Ricordate queste #immagini quando degusterte il nostro vino, non avrà più lo stesso #sapore.
Il nostro non è solamente un #vino 🍷

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Thanks to all the wonder-filled students who joine

Thanks to all the wonder-filled students who joined us for a two-day #EtnaMasterClass for #EtnaAmbassadors. A special thank you 🙏🏼 to the teams at @baronedivillagrande and @benantiwinery ... 🌋🥂🍾🍷• #etnawineschool #sicily #italy #wine #vino #etnaflavor #winelover #corkdork #winesofinstagram #wineoftheday #winetasting #winetravel #sommelier #sommlife #winemaker #vinoitaliano #italianwine #etna #mtetna #volcano #etnabianco #etnarosato #etnarosso #nwome

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