Volcanic Wine Awards 2026
Celebrating distinctive wines from volcanic terroirs
If you’re a wine producer or distributor interested in submitting wines, please do so through our submissions portal. Note that only wines from volcanic terroirs will be accepted. The competition will be held in New York City and submissions are open until 31 December 2025.
About the awards
We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Volcanic Wines International to support and produce the Volcanic Wine Awards for 2026. The Volcanic Wine Awards is the only international wine...
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The very first tasting notes on the winning wines, which were revealed in Athens on Friday. Last year I reviewed just over half of the winners in the 2022 competition at home in London but this year, as one of...
A companion piece to Jancis's review of Greek reds, published yesterday. This wintry photo shows Douloufakis's vineyards in Dafnes, Crete (courtesy of Douloufakis Wines). As Jancis explained in the introduction to her article, in order to be able to taste...
See Ferran's thorough primer to the Canaries' wine regions. A selection of top bottles is shown above. The 100 tasting notes below were taken mainly at a tasting of wines selected and prepared by Benito Troya (pictured below), one of...
Walter finds remarkable connections between Aglianico del Vulture and Barolo as a new generation of winegrowers embrace Aglianico’s tannins. Giulio Bagnale is pictured above in the Arteteke cellar. See part 1 for his report on three women pioneers in Vulture...
A new generation of winegrowers leads the way by focusing on terroir and Aglianico’s true character rather than on style. Walter reports on three pioneering women, including Viviana Malafarina, above . See part 2 for Walter's story of three men...
A pioneer in Etna's winemaking renaissance has passed. On 1 February at the age of 78 Giuseppe Benanti, pharmaceutical entrepreneur based in Catania, and who in 1988 founded Tenuta di Castiglione in Castiglione di Sicilia on Etna’s now so hyped...
Not all wine grapes are created equal. A version of this article about one very special one is published by the Financial Times. See also Awesome Assyrtikos for much more information and 91 tasting notes, mainly on Assyrtikos. Assyrtiko, the...
The characteristic grape of the atmospheric Greek island of Santorini examined. See also From Santorini to the world. When Masters of Wine Caro Maurer of Germany and Yiannis Karakasis of Greece agreed to present a masterclass comparing Riesling and Assyrtiko...
27 October 2022 Heralding articles about Santorini tomorrow and Saturday, we republish this travel guide, and retain the reference to travel restrictions below from what seems like a distant, almost dreamlike, era. 15 October 2020 We revive our tradition of...
A hotel group on the most famous Greek island of all has solved its culinary problems. Ambitious chefs have been moving into the kitchens of luxury hotels, a worldwide phenomenon which began in the 1990s and is becoming increasingly common...
Not just one but two stunningly well-made dry whites, one a whippersnapper, the other rather majestically mature. Vasse Felix from AU$15.99, £11.50 Find the Vasse Felix Argyros from €37.90, $62, SG$138 Find the Argyros Today’s wine of the week, Vasse...
This entry to our WWC22 competition takes us to the remote Azores. For more great wine writing, see our WWC22 guide. Valeria Tenison writes my name is Valeria Tenison, I am a sommelier and a journalist based in Bordeaux, France...