That’s right…you can now register to attend the International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC 2018), the leading global event for the wine and culinary tourism industry, taking place from the 10th – 11th April on the flanks of the Danube in Hungary’s capital city,...
#SicilyisAwesome at #IWINETC17! is the new social media campaign launched by conference organises Wine Pleasures. Attendees are encouraged to join in on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, have a bit of fun and post lots of photos of Sicily and selfies taken in Sicily...
Being only a little over an hour away from the island’s second largest city Catania, the city of Caltagirone is the perfect city to spend on a day excursion. The city is nicknamed for being the “city of brightly painted ceramics” and you are sure to see them...
About 33 km north of Catania, and 160 km southeast of Palermo, busy bees thrive on the eastern coast of Sicily, on the slopes of Mount Etna. Although the small village of Zafferana Etnea only houses 10,000 residents, the smaller residents, honey bees, outnumber these...
When you think about the autumn season you may picture crisp orange and golden yellow leaves falling from trees but if you travel to Etna's western slopes during the month of October you might find yourself surrounded by green and purple. Even though today in...
IWINETC 2017 is proud to present an engaging Conference Programme, packed full of inspirational education addressing business concerns and challenges and exploring all that's up and coming in the wine and culinary tourism industry. Session topics include branding...
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...
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...
That’s right…you can register online to attend the International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC 2017), the leading global event for the wine and culinary tourism industry, taking place from the 28th – 29th March in Sicily’s Etna DOC region, Italy You can register...