Volcanic Wine Awards 2026

Julia and Walter share their enthusiasm for this elegant and ageworthy southern Italian red. 2019 from €27.50, 35.87 Swiss francs, £34.48, $39.90, HK$464 2018 from €23.92, $29.99, HK$252.80, 37 Swiss francs, £34.48, AU$125 Find the 2019 Find the 2018 '...

Expensive wines from most unusual winemakers. Frank Cornelissen above with his famous Magma wines. What is it about Raeburn Fine Wines of Edinburgh that has attracted them to two of the most cussed characters in Italian wine – Gianfranco Soldera...

The charismatic, unpredictable man behind Tenuta di Trinoro in the Val d'Orcia and Passopisciaro on Etna, where this picture was taken last summer, has left us. I really loved Andrea Franchetti, who died at the age of 72 at his...

Santorini and the southern Italian psyche explored. The Wines of Santorini Yiannis Karakasis MW Published by P & J Veritas Ike ISBN 9786188545700 €65, £45 plus £12 delivery through Ampéli in London Disclaimer: this book was edited by Julia Harding...

'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...