Etna

Wines of the week A pure, expressive and finely textured red from the north slopes of the volcano. 2016 from €23.95, $34.99, £29.50 2017...

Free for all A change of heart and a change of style chronicled. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by...

Tasting articles Carlo Ferrini's own wines are light years from the ones that made his reputation as a winemaking consultant in Italy...

Tasting articles Tim is competing in the Henley Royal Regatta at 6.30 tonight. We wish him well as part of the London...

Tasting articles Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and...

Inside information See also Hidden Etna Part 1 – the east and the associated tasting notes . For all our recent coverage...

Inside information This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's...

Tasting articles See Etna – winemakers' honeypot for my introduction to this tasting. Contrade dell’Etna, the annual presentation of embryonic Etna wines...

Inside information See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade...

Tasting articles Sicily’s Etna is regularly described as the ‘Burgundy of the south’, which I take as a reference to its parcellated...

Free for all This article is also published in the Financial Times . See also my detailed tasting notes. Italy has no shortage...

Tasting articles Amid the doom and gloom surrounding Italy’s 2014 grape harvest, there is one wine region where growers are extremely pleased...

Tasting articles Italy’s fondness for en primeur tastings continues unabated (see, for example, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Nebbiolo Prima, etc, etc)...

Tasting articles A generic tasting of Sicilian wine has become an annual fixture on London's wine calendar. The event is organised by...

Wines of the week From €11.50, £14.50 Find this wine I spent last Friday night in St Michael's Church, Bath, hosting a wine tasting...

Wines of the week From €13.50, $17.99, 129 Swedish krone, 1,010 roubles, £85 a dozen in bond Find this wine Here's a rosé to...