Etna ticks all the boxes when it comes to wine tasting tours - distinctive indigenous grape varieties such as Nerello Mascalese (Rosso) and Carricante (Bianco), cool climate conditions at altitudes between 350m to 1100m; myriad soli types from volcanic ash and pumice...
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There’s Exciting Wine to Discover on the Mountain
Etna Wine is on a roll ticking all the boxes: distinctive indigenous grape varieties, cool-climate conditions at altitudes between 400m to1,100m; myriad soil types from volcanic ash and pumice to patches of limestone and sand; terraced slopes and even some...
Digital Integration in the Wine Travel & Tourism Industry
Announcing the first wave of speakers for the IWINETC 2017! We are thrilled to reveal the blend of Mai Tjemsland MW, Susan Hulme MW, Judith Lewis & Robin Shaw as 2017 Keynotes. The 2017 Sicily Conference will include around 30 talks classified in one of the...
Wine Tourism Lessons From Down Under
Announcing the first wave of speakers for the IWINETC 2017! We are thrilled to reveal the blend of Mai Tjemsland MW, Susan Hulme MW, Judith Lewis & Robin Shaw as 2017 Keynotes. The 2017 Sicily Conference will include around 30 talks classified in one of the...
IWINETC 2017 Dream Team of Keynote Speakers Announced
IWINETC Sicily conference to feature Mai Tjemsland MW, Susan Hulme MW, Judith Lewis & Robin Shaw. The International Wine Tourism Conference, Exhibition & Workshop (IWINETC) announces its dream team lineup of keynote speakers for the IWINETC 2017 Conference,...
Discovering Etna’s Volcanic Wines
When it comes to planting vines one of the last places you may want to consider is planting them on the slopes of an active volcano. Recent outbursts of Sicily’s Mount Etna provide sound arguments for this with lava flows wiping out precious vines within minutes. So...
IWINETC Sicily – 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites not to be missed!
Italy is known for having a vast and immense amount of history and throughout time we have stood side by side these incredible monuments. This country has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country on the planet dating back from centuries ago. The island...
La Gelsomina Amphitheatre of Vines, A Spectacle to Behold
Having just visited the Tenuta Monte Gorna winery, we weaved our way along the side of Etna to rendezvous in Milo with Maurizio Garozzo, Sales Manager of the La Gelsemina winery. Milo in about 25 kilometres north of Catania.and was the meeting point to head to our...