In September our publication will be available, now for its fourth consecutive year: the most complete map in Italian and English on the wines of the volcano ever edited. This year, 105 wineries were reviewed as well as many other novelties
by Fabrizio Carrera and Federico Latteri
It is almost ready to go to press. In September the new Etna Wine Guide published by Cronache di Gusto will be available.
The 2019/2020 edition will end up in the hands of enthusiasts and experts from all over the world thanks to the contents written in Italian and English. It is the fourth consecutive year that Cronache di Gusto publishes the most complete map dedicated to the wines of the volcano ever edited. Also this year the Guide will be present in the main bookstores and in some of the best newsstands of Sicily at the price of 15 euros. More importantly, the Guide will be on sale online with the possibility therefore to arrive in any corner of the planet as it happened for the previous editions. We received purchase requests from all the continents. Also this time a detailed section is dedicated to the best restaurants, the best shops and the best hotels in the area. A further indication for those who move to the volcano and also want to eat well and sleep well. The contribution of some journalists of our editorial team in the activity of coordination, tastings and drafting of the descriptions was decisive: Giorgio Vaiana, Marina V. Carrera, Veronica Laguardia, Francesca Landolina, Geraldine Pedrotti, Federica Raccuglia. The numbers of this new edition are large. First of all, the reviewed wineries are 105, twenty-one more than last year's Guide, a sign of the vitality of Etna wines without equal in the whole national territory. Then, we tasted almost 400 wines, 389 of which present in the Guide. Finally, twenty-seven wines are must-have. Today we reveal the first group of must-have, those wines that, as is widely known, represent excellence for us, the highest peaks of Etna production this year.
WHITE
- Doc Etna Bianco Superiore Contrada Villagrande 2015 – Barone di Villagrande
- Doc Etna Bianco Contrada Cavaliere 2017 – Benanti
- Doc Etna Bianco Millemetri 2015 – Feudo Cavaliere
RED
- Doc Etna Rosso Feudo di Mezzo 2015 – Alta Mora-Cusumano
- Vigne Vecchie 2010 – Calabretta
- Doc Etna Rosso Feudo di Mezzo 2017 – Calcagno
- Doc Etna Rosso Cisterna Fuori 2017 – Ciro Biondi
- Doc Etna Rosso Riserva Zottorinoto 2015 – Cottanera
- Dop Etna Rosso Nonno Ciccio 2015 – Francesco Modica
- Magma 2017 – Frank Cornelissen
- Doc Etna Rosso San Lorenzo 2017 – Girolamo Russo
- Doc Etna Rosso Arcuria 2017 – Graci
- Doc Etna Rosso Prefillossera 2016 – Palmento Costanzo
- Contrada S 2017 – Passopisciaro