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. If your wine is landed in the US and can be shipped from a US address, then we can extend the submissions deadline into January; we will need to receive your samples by January 29, 2026, (so we can no longer accept submissions that need to be shipped into the US).
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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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From €10.95 and $18.98 Find this wine (and Ch Sigalas Rabaud 2009 Sauternes) As I explained in my account of the recent Masters of Wine Symposium in Bordeaux, the Greek Wine Federation treated us to some of the their best...
Look out for a plethora of tasting notes on Italy's recent fine vintages next week – JR It is not every day that one stumbles upon 120-year-old vines, and although Australia has its fair share of centenarian vineyards, mainly in...
This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also tasting notes on nearly 60 Etna wines. One of the most exciting things about my job is the discovery of a new wine...
This article was also published in the Financial Times. As the waiter in the Osteria Antica Marina in Catania, Sicily, a 15 minute drive from the airport, brought us the second half of the dozen or so small white bowls...
See also my overview Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean? The nearly 60 tasting notes below were taken at the first Contrade dell'Etna wine fair we were lucky enough to attend. The point of the tasting was to demonstrate...
Santorini’s kids have been whooping it up in the snow that fell 17-18 Feb. Although it’s only three years since the last snowfall, white fluffy precipitation is still quite a rarity on this island. According to Konstantina Hatzidakis, owner with...
Find these wines The more wines I taste from the lava-prone slopes of Mount Etna, the more excited I am by this south eastern corner of Siciliy. I have previously raved about Andrea Franchetti’s Passopisciaro but it was only last...
A few years ago the world of wine was alerted to the catastrophe about to befall the beautiful Greek island of Santorini. Tourism was triumphing over viticulture. Land that should be upholding the island's ancient vine-growing tradition was being sold...
Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, one of the real stars of modern Greek wine, sent me the following report of a particularly disastrous 2002 vintage (and I have heard similar tales of the rest of Greece): Harvest has been a disastrous one and...