Volcanic Wine Awards 2026
In 2026 we partnered with Volcanic Wine International to hold a wine competition focused solely on wines from volcanic terroirs around the world. Here you’ll find the details of the competition as well as the results, which we will post as they become available.
Trade and media interested in attending the Volcanic Wine Conference on 10 June in NYC please visit Volcanic Wines International.
The awards competition and the results
The why and how behind a tasting focused on wines from volcanic soils around the world. Written by the man who started it, John Szabo MS. Above, a vineyard in...
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Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and still active volcano, provided me with one of the earliest insights into Italy’s complicated 2017 vintage. It is Italy’s only...
One of the saddest recent losses to the wine world was that of Haridimos Hatzidakis, all-too-young founder of the outstanding eponymous winery on the island of Santorini. As his UK importer Mary Pateras of Eclectic Wines put it last year...
From 19.40 Swiss francs, £20.09, $24.99 Find this wine Last month I found myself in New York reading Cork Dork, that ripper of a read so enthusiastically reviewed by Tam recently. The protagonist spends time working in New York’s awesome...
25 January 2018 We are republishing this fascinating article free today in our Throwback Thursday series. 17 January 2018 Dr José Vouillamoz, co-author of Wine Grapes , presents some wines worth discovering. It's interesting to compare this with Ferran's recent...
18 January 2018 Today we are republishing free Ferran’s excellent investigative report on the wines and vineyards of Tenerife, including a video that reveals a unique insight into the role of Tenerife in the history of the wine trade. For...
See Sicily 2017 – the guide for all the fascinating articles in this series. There is a group of tiny islands, the Isole Eoli or the Aeolian Islands, on Sicily’s north coast just an hour off Milazzo by boat. One...
See also Hidden Etna Part 1 – the east and the associated tasting notes . For all our recent coverage of the island, see Sicily 2017 – the guide . Unlike Etna’s east side, the south side has struggled not...
This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's famous volcano. See also Historic Etna part 2 – the south and historic west and associated tasting notes . For...
24 August 2017 We're republishing this article from 2009, in our Throwback Thursday series, as a tribute to the hugely talented Haridimos Hatzidakis who so tragically took his own life recently. He had been troubled for some time, and leaves...
See Etna – winemakers' honeypot for my introduction to this tasting. Contrade dell’Etna, the annual presentation of embryonic Etna wines, is becoming less of an en primeur event. While in previous years producers used to pour cask samples of wines...
See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade dell’Etna took place in Passopisciaro (see here for Jancis’s inaugural report on the first edition). Originally the brainchild of Andrea...
Do wines produced from vines grown on volcanic soils have any shared characteristics? Finding a tentative answer to this question was the purpose of a tasting organised by the Institute of Masters of Wine in London last month. The event...