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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'My name is Sarah Bray, DipWSET, and I am a wine-focused communications professional with a background in editorial and brand content creation, strategic development and implementation, event planning and execution, and digital marketing. Currently at Meadowood Estate in Napa Valley...
2018 and 2019, Nebbiolo and Pinot Noir, Burgundy and Barolo: comparisons abound but identity eludes Walter in his latest survey of wines from the 'magic mountain'. Above, Planeta's winery, sited on a fifteenth-century lava flow in the Feudo di Mezzo...
Making wine for fun on the volcano. From left to right above: Dante Pasqua, Emiliano Falsini and Giuseppe Russo. Last January saw the release of two red wines from Etna by newcomer I Suoli, or 'The Soils'. I might have...
It’s impossible to stay away from Santorini, it seems … above, a classic image from the island provided by Jonathan Reeve. 2017 from €14.50, $23.94 2018 from €13.60, £20.70, 1,200 New Taiwan dollars Find the 2017 Find the 2018 It’s...
With pink wine considered so respectable, and potentially lucrative, now, we suggest a few to wash away late-summer blues. We published a comprehensive report on more than 100 rosés back in July and here are just a few more current...
Cathy P Lee writes, ‘I once was a wannabe scientist in London, but I never did look good in a lab coat. So I traded the coat for a manteau when I moved to Paris and worked in the ecological...
It was surely inevitable that Sicily's first fine-wine producer would establish themselves on the volcano … bottle-shot by Benedetto Tarantino. You may remember that Walter, not easily impressed, was rather bowled over by his evening with Alberto Tasca d’Almerita back...
Ferran reports on three exciting sets of wines from very different Spanish territories. The Canary Islands landscape above was captured by Cristian Palmer. Albada: a surprising way of rethinking Garnacha Albada is a brand owned by Bodegas Virgen de la...
Tam visits and tastes a wide range of wines from Hungary’s most famous wine region and finds some gems – both people and wine. Stand in any of the cru vineyards of Tokaj and you’ll be standing at the foothills...
A pure, expressive and finely textured red from the north slopes of the volcano. 2016 from €23.95, $34.99, £29.50 2017 from €21.89, £25 Find this wine I tasted Ayunta Navigabile 2017 Etna with Ayunta's Filippo Mangione (below) at the world’s...
A ground-breaking, fascinating and delicious tasting in the heart of the Auvergne. There’s nothing flashy about the Auvergne winegrowers, unless you count the flashing red lights (right) and the slightly wearing sound effects in the exhibition space of the 40-ha...
Tom Parker, enthused by recent changes at this estate, follows up on our recent articles on dry Furmint with tasting notes. When I tasted these wines in early January it had been three years since Royal Tokaji were last in...