They were Benanti Etna Bianco 1003, Graci Etna Bianco 2016 and I Vigneri di Salvo Foto Etna Bianco Aurora 2016.
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They included the three I recommended, Tenuta Delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso 2014, Benanti Etna Rosso Rossodiverzella 2013 and Biondi Etna Rosso Outis 2013, along with other Etna Rossos that you brought to the conversation.
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Tenuta delle Terre Nere near Randazzo in the north of Etna, one of the larger producers of Etna Bianco, makes two Etna Biancos.
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The kids named it "Etna" after Europe's tallest active volcano, Sicily's Mount Etna.
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This time, we will look at the white wines of Mount Etna, known as Etna Bianco.
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Notably, Graci's higher-end Etna Bianco, Arcurìa, is 100 percent carricante and is even more gorgeous, while Salvo Foti's superb Etna Bianco Superiore, Vigna di Milo, is likewise entirely carricante, as is Pietra Marina, Benanti's Etna Bianco Superiore, one of Italy's greatest whites.
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Pietra Marina may be the leading expression of Etna Bianco Superiore, but other carricante wines in different styles are worth seeking out, beginning with Benanti's entry-level Biancodicaselle Etna Bianco, which uses carricante grapes from the Contrada Caselle in Milo and from southeast Etna.
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"Randazzo is the most Etna of the Etna towns, and I'm not saying that because I'm the mayor," said Michele Mangione, sitting in a hotel lobby in his town.
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Here are the three bottles I recommend seeking out: Tenuta Delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso 2014 (deGrazia Imports, Evanston, Ill.) $18 Benanti Etna Rosso Rossodiverzella 2013 (Tradizione Imports, New York) $20 Biondi Etna Rosso Outis 2013 (Selected Estates of Europe, Mamaroneck, N.Y.) $33 These are the entry-level wines for each producer.
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Getting to Etna isn't easy, considering that you need to climb the sides of a still-active volcano—the Munjibello, as the Italians call it, or simply a muntagna, meaning Mount Etna.
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Alberto Aiello Graci, also on north Etna, makes two Biancos.
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Elegance and rusticity may be a singular characteristic of Etna.
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A Soave or Etna Bianco, from Italy, would be terrific.
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You really have to try hard to die on Mount Etna.
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At 10,900 feet high, Mount Etna is Europe's largest active volcano.
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Plumes of smoke and ash erupt from Mount Etna on Oct.
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Mr. Calabretta has longtime roots on Etna through his father's family.
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You could also try a frappato or Etna Rosso from Sicily.
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Hooked is new for seafood takeout, 34 South Etna Avenue, hookedmtk.com.
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In my experience, few wines demonstrate this notion of salinity as well as the whites in the Etna Bianco category, made largely or entirely from carricante grapes grown in the foothills of Mount Etna in Sicily.
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Even the rule-enforcing bureaucrats have recognized Milo's affinity for carricante, the best white wine grape on Sicily: Etna Bianco, made with a minimum of 60 percent carricante, can be produced throughout the Etna grape-growing regions.
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We nibbled on salty aged parmigiano and sweet sun-dried tomatoes as we worked our way through the vineyard's lineup: the Murgo brut, the Etna white, the Etna red, and somewhere in there, the Murgo brut rosé.
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Etna, sweating and panting, his lips "white rimmed with thirst and excitement."
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Sarah recently told Kris that she wanted to taste wines from Etna.
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But as Mount Etna reminded visitors, lava is best viewed from afar.
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So I settled in Sicily, in the valley just north of Etna.
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In the best wines, the power of the Etna terroir is clear.
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This is the hazy sunlit filter that Etna will reward you with.
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Options include Orvieto from Umbria, verdicchios and perhaps Soaves and Etna Biancos.
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Even Mount Etna, an active volcano in Sicily, is covered in snow.
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Flavia Galuppo just inherited her father's building, home to Etna Tool & Die.
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Some businesses and individuals still rely on Etna, even in its afterlife.
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Jungfrau, Switzerland Sahara Desert, Mauritania Viñales, Cuba Etna Volcano, Italy Newfoundland, Canada Valle de la luna, Chile Aletsch, Switzerland Joshua Tree, USA Death Valley, USA Jungfrau, Switzerland Badlands, South Dakota, USA Kaieteur, Guyana Etna Volcano, Italy Jungfrau, Switzerland Sahara Desert, Mauritania Viñales, Cuba Etna Volcano, Italy Newfoundland, Canada Valle de la luna, Chile Aletsch, Switzerland Joshua Tree, USA Death Valley, USA Jungfrau, Switzerland Badlands, South Dakota, USA Kaieteur, Guyana Etna Volcano, Italy In the wee hours of a beautiful New Year's Day in the Sahara, Oskar Landi tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
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A higher designation, Etna Bianco Superiore, requires a minimum of 80 percent carricante, and all the grapes must come from the Milo area on the east face of Etna, which is regarded as the best area for carricante.
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Eruptions on Mt. Etna as seen from the International Space Station in 2002.
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Through the years, some eruptions have threatened the people living around Mount Etna.
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Lava just keeps flowing from Italy's Mount Etna, making for some spectacular viewing.
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Etna is not just a mountain with a fuming crater at the summit.
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"I have a love-hate relationship with Etna," one local woman told me.
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But he concedes that he — and Etna — still have a way to go.
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Vivara's controlling shareholders, the Kaufman family, also own home furnishing retail chain Etna.
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In the summer of 1977, Mount Etna entered a mild phase of eruption.
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Flavia Galuppo at her father's former business on Bond Street, Etna Tool & Die.
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Etna is an extremely active volcano, one of the most active in the world.
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Mount Etna first became active in late January and has experienced eruptions ever since.
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Cindi, an Amazon "ambassador" from Etna, Ohio, replied with information about her work breaks.
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There was wall-space enough for views of Etna—so why not for this?
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Etna today is booming, a symbol of Sicily's resurgence as an exciting wine region.
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Trimarchi was born there and is well acquainted with the unpredictable power of Etna.
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But, as I began to understand on Mount Etna, I never forget the luck.
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The Sicilian Mount ETNA has appeared in the New York Times Crossword 742 times.
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Seeing any of these products outside the shop, you'd never know Etna made them.
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An Etna Bianco from Sicily, made with the saline carricante grape, would be terrific.
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This explains how we came to drink his 22014 Magma Rosso, made from old nerello mascalese vines grown organically in the foothills of Mount Etna, as we sat in a restaurant in June outside this small town on the north face of Etna.
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There are few volcanoes like Etna; in fact, it's considered a sort of natural lab.
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What do you mean when you say that Mount Etna is a wonderful natural lab?
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Many other Italian whites would be good choices, whether verdicchio, fiano, Etna Bianco or Soave.
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For anybody making wine on Etna, the promise of the volcano far outweighs the threat.
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The three bottles I suggest are: Benanti Etna Bianco 2016 (Tradizione Imports, New York) $25.
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I Vigneri di Salvo Foti Etna Bianco Aurora 2016 (Louis/Dressner Selections, New York) $32.
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Formed on volcanic rock from Mount Etna, Acireale's beaches are made of stone, not sand.
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If you have wondered about the fuss over Etna reds, this is a great introduction.
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You could try one of the better Etna Biancos, like the Pietra Marina from Benanti.
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Italy is full of such wines, like Etna Bianco or fiano, to name just two.
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Perched on the side of Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, lies an ancient vineyard.
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BBC crew makes dramatic escape as Mount Etna erupts This has "nope" written all over it.
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Mount Etna, Europe's largest volcano, made headlines yesterday when an explosion injured at least 10 people.
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Mount Etna definitely produces a lot of CO2, and especially a lot of SO2 [sulfur dioxide].
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Several people noted similarities between the Etna Biancos and Muscadet, while another cited assyrtiko from Santorini.
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In 2300, she returned to the family's estate near Randazzo on the northern face of Etna.
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Ever resilient, like the Sicilians of Etna, they reappeared in 2014, more than 30 years later.
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I'd venture to guess that few were disappointed by the Etna Rossos we have been drinking.
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In the Etna region, the volcano provides a magnificent backdrop for the vineyards in its foothills.
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Sergio Jadim, the sommelier that night, pours a Sicilian red, Nerello Mascalese 2016 from Mount Etna.
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Along with the small producers, big companies like Planeta and Cusumano are also buying land on Etna.
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The 275 vintage was very warm on Etna, and the wine showed the effects of the heat.
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But I've never found it to be as interesting as it is when it comes from Etna.
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So would any number of Italian whites, like Etna Bianco, vermentino from Liguria or fiano from Campania.
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But other reds will work well, too, like Chianti Classicos from Tuscany or Etna Rossos from Sicily.
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Locals hope Mount Etna, which erupted as recently as March, does not interrupt the G-7 meetings.
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Tattooing remained illegal until 1997, but that did not scare away Etna, which adapted to the times.
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After swimming 3,300m biking 140km, running a half marathon and hiking up mount Etna I finally made it.
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Now the world understands that Etna can produce fresh, energetic reds that are pure, elegant, subtle and vivacious.
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The tallest volcano in Europe at over 10,000 feet (3,000 meters), Etna has been erupting since late February.
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The techniques learned on Etna would then be deployed in lunar missions or in the exploration of Mars.
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Like most agricultural families on Etna, her ancestors had made wine and sold it in bulk to merchants.
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Spend enough time on the volcano, and you will start to hear that Mount Etna is not Sicily.
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One of the things I like best about these Etna Rossos is the elusive nature of their flavors.
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With good reason, the wines of Mount Etna to the north have captured the imagination of many Americans.
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So would an Etna Bianco, or a sauvignon blanc, so long as you are sure it is dry.
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You could try Etna Biancos, made from the carricante grape, or Greek whites, made from assyrtiko or moschofilero.
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So would an Etna Bianco from Sicily, an assyrtiko from Santorini, maybe even a good albariño from Spain.
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Etna, a relatively small independent machinist, continued doing work for public housing until around the time it closed.
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At one point, Mr. Wood said, every tattoo parlor in New York was using gear made by Etna.
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They include people like Marco de Grazia, an American wine importer who established Tenuta delle Terre Nere in Randazzo in 24; Frank Cornelissen, a wine lover from Belgium who's been making idiosyncratic natural wines on Etna since 2300; and Andrea Franchetti, a Tuscan winemaker who was drawn to Etna in 2100.
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After one of the most quiet years in decades, Etna has decided to make 2017 a little more exciting.
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Wine School From the ancient vineyards of Burgundy, we travel to the newly emerging region of Etna in Sicily.
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This behavior isn't new: Etna has in fact been erupting on and off for a very, very long time.
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Here at Wine School, where for the last month we have been drinking Etna Biancos, we prize savory wines.
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We're in a small village in a valley just north of Etna, Italy, on the east coast of Sicily.
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A Bangladeshi man, wrapped in a thermal blanket at dawn, hours before Mount Etna would rise in the distance.
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A cru Beaujolais would also go well, as would a Langhe nebbiolo, an Etna rosso or a Chianti Classico.
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Her parents grew grapes, olives and hazelnuts on roughly 150 acres in the Etna foothills near the Alcantara River.
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It is fruity yet lean, with the energy and minerality that Etna seems to confer on the best examples.
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He is no less dedicated to making wines without artifice that he believes will convey the essence of Etna.
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As recently as 2000, coinciding with his arrival, most of the wine produced on Etna was sold in bulk.
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"We are not living in the same moment as Etna," she said, as we walked her vineyards in June.
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There's an Etna burger with caponata, and pasta alla Norma to cement the Sicilian connection at this informal spot.
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Underrated Dolcetto di Dogliani would be great, as would an Etna Rosso or an aglianico from Taurasi or Vulture.
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From Italy, you could try an aglianico from Campania or Basilicata, or a Sicilian nerello mascalese from Mount Etna.
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"Very relieved to be safe" - the terrifying moment @BBCMorelle and crew were caught up in Mount Etna eruption https://t.
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If you compare it to Hawaii, for example, Mount Etna is a volcano that has a much more variable activity.
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But as a region making fine, distinctive wines coveted by the rest of the world, Etna is most definitely new.
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Up until the 1980s, most of the wine made in the Etna region was cheap, red and sold in bulk.
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Ciro Biondi, whose vineyards are on the warmer southeast of Etna, also makes two Biancos, but neither is 100 percent.
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There's no wrong choice, though it's the eastern coast that's home to the majestic Mount Etna, Europe's highest active volcano.
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The wines of Mount Etna may be getting all the attention, but the wines of Vittoria deserve to be recognized.
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Cornelissen's natural approach to wine and the resources he has in the foothills of Mount Etna have defined his product.
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Etna is well-known for having eruptions where multiple summit vents are active, so this isn't too out of the ordinary.
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Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes, and since 2011 there have been about 23 eruptions, Neri says.
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So we can install a lot of instruments, and even invent and test new instruments on the often-erupting Mount Etna.
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A team flew helicopters over Etna and dropped concrete blocks at the edge of the lava tunnel to plug the hole.
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But Etna Bianco Superiore, a higher level of quality with a minimum of 80 percent carricante, can come from only Milo.
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If you've never heard of carricante, and if you thought Etna only produced reds, you are no doubt in good company.
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Back then, France, which had been devastated by phylloxera, an aphid that preys on grape roots, began buying wine from Etna.
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Almost everybody noted the earthy minerality that is a distinct component of nerello mascalese grown in the volcanic soils of Etna.
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Carricante I love this white grape from the Mount Etna region of Sicily, an area far better known for its reds.
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Since January 23, the summit craters on Etna have been restless and now strombolian explosions have been rocking the South East Crater.
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The ceremony and reception took place at the Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo, outdoors along the Ionian Sea with views of Mt. Etna.
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We'll be drinking Etna Rosso, red wines made largely from the nerello mascalese grape, often abetted by a second grape, nerello cappuccio.
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Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, has been spewing red-hot molten rock and ash for the past few weeks.
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Etna, at 3,330 meters (10,926 feet), is the highest volcano in mainland Europe and can burst into action several times a year.
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My wine—I would simply define it as wine—is a wine from Etna, a result of my technique and my philosophy.
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Visitors enter a deep-blue space, with ceiling-high photographs of Etna smoking and the perfect Greek temples at Agrigento and Segesta.
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Barone di Villagrande, like Benanti another carricante pioneer, makes a very good Etna Bianco Superiore, though without the dimensionality of Pietra Marina.
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After almost a week in Sicily, I had come to think of Etna as a benevolent maternal figure watching over her island.
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Having just explored the Etna Biancos of Sicily, we will next turn to another white from southern Italy, the fianos of Campania.
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Almost 21990,290 feet up in the northern foothills of Mount Etna lies perhaps the highest vineyard in Sicily, Salvo Foti's Vigna Bosco.
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Just last month, Con Edison called to ask if they could buy pans Etna manufactured for workers to carry their tools in.
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At the fire captain's insistence, it was the only object Mr. Galuppo signed: "Made in New York City by Etna Tool & Die."
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"Mount Etna gives you a lot in terms of beauty and jobs, because it's visited by millions of tourists every year," Neri says.
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Scientists also hope to use the robots to explore the depths of Mount Etna and relay back useful technical data on seismic movement.
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Other red options include aglianico, Etna Rosso or even a syrah from the northern Rhône, like a St.-Joseph or a Crozes-Hermitage.
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Amongst those hurt near the summit of Etna on the island of Sicily were members of a television crew filming for the BBC.
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Muscadet from the Atlantic end of the Loire is a natural choice, as is Etna Bianco, made of the carricante grape, from Sicily.
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On those occasions, the very best wine might be a good Finger Lakes riesling, or a basic Etna Rosso, not a profound Chambertin.
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You could do the same with whites, looking for simple, fresh and lively bottles, like Cassis, Etna Bianco, fianos from Campania or Soaves.
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CATANIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, has once again erupted, spewing red torrents of lava into the sky.
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The current eruption (termed "mild" by the folks at the INGV's Etna Observatory) first started with loud explosions and incandescent blocks on January 20.
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So Mount Etna is very active because of the geodynamic conditions of the Mediterranean region and of eastern Sicily that make it that way.
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She also wants to apply this new model to Mount Etna in Sicily, and use it to examine the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park.
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The views, the wine, the food, the towns made almost entirely of black volcanic rock — these are the reasons to come to Mount Etna.
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Certainly during his early days on Etna, when Mr. Cornelissen was experimenting and finding his way, some bottles were oxidized or had other flaws.
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Mr. Cornelissen came to Etna as a winemaking novice because of those old vineyards and the relative absence of a wine establishment and infrastructure.
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It included a study that he conducted from 2012 to 2014 by monitoring goats and sheep on the side of Mount Etna, in Sicily.
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Though Mount Etna isn't considered a dangerous volcano, it shouldn't be underestimated either, says Neri, who's been working on the volcano for almost 30 years.
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But Etna has all kinds of eruptions — from effusive eruptions, like in Hawaii, and explosive ones to phreatic eruptions, like the one we saw yesterday.
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So it is with Etna Biancos, whites with a pronounced savory quality that belies another wine cliché, that Italy cannot produce white wines with character.
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Mount Etna, in Sicily, is a test bed for the approximately three-foot high, four-wheeled machine ahead of a future mission to the moon.
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It is distinguished by its herbal notes, hints of licorice and especially its fragrant essence of blood oranges, grown at the base of Mount Etna.
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These wines are both shaped by volcanic soils, in Campania's case Vesuvius, which looms menacingly over Naples though it's not nearly as noisy as Etna.
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I thought first, naturally, of a Sicilian red, either a nerello mascalese from the Mount Etna region or a fresh frappato from the Vittoria area.
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I was particularly interested in how they compared with the Etna Biancos that we tasted recently, which also came from volcanic soils, though in Sicily.
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Looming over Taormina is an active volcano, Mount Etna, which has also made a literary appearance: In Homer's "Odyssey" it is the home of Cyclops.
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Whether this activity is a harbinger of an active new year at Etna is still unknown, but clearly the conditions are changing at the Italian volcano.
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No, just a volcano Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily, Italy Feb.
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Etna, although not as directly hazardous as Vesuvius, is one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, and its explosive eruptions can impact air travel.
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Since then, activity has calmed down, with a period from 309,000 to 241,000 years ago that was dominated by strombolian eruptions and lava flows (think Etna).
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MOUNT ETNA, Italy (Reuters) - A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film.
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Zafferana has been damaged by lava streams off the eastern crater of Mount Etna, and as recently as 2349, was covered in a layer of ash.
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So the Pompeian MOUNT VESUVIUS doesn't get nearly as much love as ETNA, and I, for one, am glad that Ms. Nutt has brought it back.
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Valle Dell'Acate Cerasuolo di Vittoria 19.993 $219.99 With so much attention focused on the Sicilian region of Mount Etna, the wines of Vittoria are often overlooked.
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Others, especially the "big architects" — "You would know their names," Ms. Galuppo said — might have suggested they made products in-house that actually came from Etna.
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This is the first sign of magma at the surface at Etna in over eight months (which is a long time for the nearly-constantly restless volcano).
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A BBC television crew, and some tourists, are fortunate to only walk away with minor injuries after a volcano eruption on Mount Etna in Italy on Thursday.
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As long as humans have lived and farmed in proximity to Mount Etna, they've grown grapes in the foothills and slopes of this still quite active volcano.
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ROME (Reuters) - Bright lava lit up the night sky on the Italian island of Sicily on Monday as Mount Etna erupted for the first time this year.
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While it's possible that the presence of catarratto added amplitude to the wine, I don't know of anybody around Etna who considers catarratto to be particularly desirable.
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The Pour MILO, Sicily — The first thing you notice about Salvo Foti's new Aeris vineyard in the foothills of Mount Etna is the sponginess of the soil.
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The Pour RANDAZZO, Sicily — Chiara Vigo was just a young girl at the time, but the eruption of Mount Etna in 1981 is burned into her memory.
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So would many cold, dry white wines, especially from seafood areas, like assyrtiko from Santorini, Etna Bianco from Sicily, Muscadet from where the Loire meets the Atlantic.
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Holly, Sam, my nephew Noah and I just completed the Virgin Strive Challenge, traveling from the base of the Matterhorn to Mount Etna, entirely on human power.
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I don't want to argue the relative merits of these other choices, whether riesling, pinot blanc, savagnin from the Jura or carricante from Etna, to name a few.
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Fianos from Campania, carricantes from Mount Etna and vermentinos from Liguria are intuitive pairings, but my secret weapon is from France: Bourgogne Aligoté, the stealth white from Burgundy.
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The looming presence of an active volcano is a simple fact of life in the Etna wine region, like the lapping of the ocean in a beach town.
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Under a muslin tarp, the warm evening air seeping through, we watched the last sunlight of the day painting the peaks of Mount Etna a dreamy, golden color.
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The smell of burning ash and the ribbons of steam drifting out of the crater served as a reminder that Etna had erupted only a few days earlier.
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"The main misunderstanding is thinking of Etna as a unity," said Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli, an architect who runs a family citrus farm called San Giovanni, outside Catania.
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The equally entrancing wines of Vittoria stand in Etna's considerable shadow, to the point where Vittoria's star winemaker, Arianna Occhipinti, is sometimes assumed to be based in Etna.
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A guide from Etna was about to drive them up to the site of the eruption in a vehicle adapted to the rugged, plantless terrain of the volcano.
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Myriad unoaked Italian white wines will do the job, but something a little more expensive, like a good Etna Bianco made with the carricante grape, would be delicious.
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If you can't find any traditional Georgian wines, other options include a good Cahors, perhaps an Etna red from Sicily or a Ribeira Sacra from Galicia in Spain.
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Unlike Italy's Mount Etna, Popocatépetl hasn't spewed any spectacular lava — much to the relief of residents in Mexico's Puebla valley, which sits about 80 miles east of Mexico City.
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"After a half-hour at room temperature, the wine grew exponentially in mouth-feel and floral aroma," said Smellis of Brooklyn, who drank a 2016 Etna Bianco from Murgo.
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Posted to the World Meteorological Organization's Facebook page as well as other social media sources, the photos show a massive lenticular cloud perched atop Mount Etna on June 14.
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Now, Etna Rosso, a red wine made primarily of nerello mascalese, with a little help from its cousin, nerello cappuccio, is adored in wine bars and restaurants all over.
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Possibly this was because Etna Rossos touch on many of the characteristics that classically define most red wines from Italy, bringing together these qualities in a particularly distinctive way.
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Early this week, the volcano had a moderate strombolian eruption, what the folks who monitor Etna call a "paroxysm," that produced a lava fountain over the summit of the volcano.
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Reuters photo of the dayStill the winner of the 'most active volcano in Italy' award Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on Sicily.
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By Design One summer holiday on the island of Sicily, home to Mount Etna, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin became obsessed with basalt, the volcanic rock created as lava cools.
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I'd first been there in 1992, with my mother, my husband and our two sons (then aged 10 and 14), and written — for this newspaper — about watching Mount Etna erupt.
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I also ordered a little basket of potatoes stuffed with cheese hotter than the lava of Mount Etna, and made friends with a Peruvian kid who's particularly loquacious with alcohol.
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Etna Bianco from Sicily and fianos from Campania will be delicious, as will white Irouléguys from southwestern France, sauvignon blancs or Muscadets from the Loire Valley and aligotés from Burgundy.
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Choose any one you like: Soave from the Veneto, Gavi from the Piedmont, verdicchio from Le Marche, Etna Bianco from Sicily or Fiano from Campania, just to name a handful.
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Sicily — La Dimora is a traditional Italian country house that sits on the lush eastern plain by Mount Etna, an area popular with wealthy Sicilians and owners of second homes.
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On Thursday, Beatrice will take part in a 68-mile mountain bike ride, an 8.5-mile trail run and around 7-mile hike to the summit of Mount Etna in Sicily.
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The combinations are all permitted by Etna Bianco rules, which require the wines to be at least 60 percent carricante, up to 40 percent catarratto and up to 15 percent minnella.
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In a beautifully manicured carricante vineyard about 103,100 feet high, one of Benanti's sources for Pietra Marina, a visitor can see the ocean to the east and Etna to the west.
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During the eruption of Italy's Mount Etna from 1991 to 1993, nearly eight tons of explosives carefully arranged by engineers were used to carve a hole in a major lava channel.
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"We hope everyone will put their differences aside and come together here, and we hope that Mount Etna cooperates," said Pippo Perdichizzi, the owner of an ice cream shop in Taormina.
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Both of these wines also show a fine balance between sweet and bitter with the addition of earthy mineral flavors, and each can be focused and graceful like the better Etna Rossos.
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That sounded like a great frame of mind to begin my trip to Catania, the second largest city in Sicily, positioned in the shadow of Mount Etna on the island's eastern coast.
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The sweeter caponata, if you are serving it with toast or solo, would go well with a dry rosé or an incisive white, like an Etna Bianco, made of the carricante grape.
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"Unlike Etna Biancos, which are (at times) grown on much younger soils of an active volcano, these fianos from Campania have a much more ancient flavor," Martina Zuccarello of New York wrote.
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In his spare time, he posts photos on Twitter and Instagram of what's passing beneath him: Mount Etna erupting, the artificial islands of Dubai, the Australian Outback, the entire country of Denmark.
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Mr. Cornelissen, along with others like Andrea Franchetti of Passopisciaro and Marco de Grazia of Tenuta delle Terre Nere, were among the wave of newcomers that drew attention to the wines of Etna.
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In my favorite letter of Seneca's, the famous philosopher requests that his friend climb Mount Etna to see if the rumors are true that the mountain is shrinking (plot twist, it actually is).
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Other than that I was stuck with a bunch of shorties — PAX; ARTS; ETNA; SAT UP; ICE-T — for what felt like forever, until I started breaking into some of the bigger blocks.
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It occurred two days after Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupted, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the temporary closure of Catania airport on Sicily's eastern coast.
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It came from an island, Sicily, that was reviled for the boatloads of bad wine it produced, and from a region, Mount Etna, that was ignored but for the hyperactive volcano that defines it.
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That anger infused the Five Star Movement's campaign rally Saturday night in Catania, in the shadow of the active volcano Mount Etna, where Mr. Grillo headlined an event that featured the party's major players.
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A number of distilleries, breweries and eating places have opened in the surrounding area in the last several years, following in the tradition of the nearby Etna Brewing Company, which was founded in 1868.
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It hit two days after Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupted, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the temporary closure of Catania airport on Sicily's eastern coast.
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Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, has been grouchy in recent weeks, sending up plumes of glowing red lava and ash that could be seen for miles from its peaks in Sicily.
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The summit, being held near Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, is the final leg of a nine-day tour for Trump — his first foreign trip since becoming president — that began in the Middle East.
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CATANIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupted on Monday, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the closure of Catania airport on Sicily's eastern coast.
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It rains often around Milo, a town on the east face of Mount Etna, the hyperactive volcano that has gained a reputation as a source of excellent reds, made primarily of the nerello mascalese grape.
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Aside from working with Benanti through 2011, he has consulted with Biondi and has made one of the few carricante wines outside the Etna region, with Gulfi, which is based near Vittoria in southeastern Sicily.
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ROME (Reuters) - Ten people were injured in an eruption on Mount Etna on Thursday when magma flowing into snow caused a violent explosion that sent stones and rocks flying into the air, emergency services said.
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Wine School In the last few years, Sicily and Mount Etna in particular have become well known for their red wines, particularly those made of the nerello mascalese grape, which we drank back in 2016.
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And Martin Schappeit of Forest, Va., said the Gros'Noré reminded him of Etna Rosso, which had not occurred to me but makes sense: another hillside red wine with tannins, made within view of the Mediterranean.
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Wine has been growing on the slopes of Mount Etna for over 2,000 years and only now is it catching the eye of investors, with several large Italian wine producers recently investing in the region.
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Washington's Mount RainierPhoto: Stan Shebs/WikimediaThe volcanoes at the top of Edwards' personal watch list include Katla and Hekla in Iceland, Villarrica and Llaima in Chile, Klyuchevskoy in Russia, Veniaminof in Alaska, and Etna in Sicily.
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CATANIA, Italy (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit an area north of Catania on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily early on Wednesday, damaging buildings and injuring about 30 people, officials said.
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Rather than building up pressure for years before erupting violently, like Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii 2,000 years ago, or, more recently, Mount St. Helens in Washington, Etna tends to emit gases continually, which relieves the pressure.
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End a meal with the panna cotta, cool and deeply vanilla, tucked under pistachio-hazelnut brittle and ribbons of basil, with slices of grapefruit just sanguine enough for you to pretend they're blood oranges from Mt. Etna.
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Perhaps the phrase was well-intended, or maybe it was a bit of cynical marketing, like the incessant efforts to attract attention to the nerello mascalese wines of Mount Etna by calling them the Burgundies of Sicily.
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This very complex clash of the two plates allows for the creation of volcanoes like Etna, like the Aeolian Islands, the volcanoes in the Lazio region, and also the mountain ranges like the Apennine Mountains and the Alps.
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Our constructors have kept their grid to the standard 140 words for a 21×21, and the fill is pretty much O.K., with the exception of the long partial IS LOYAL TO and the elongated crosswordese MOUNT ETNA.
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Together with an inspiring group of individuals – including my children Holly and Sam, and my nephew Noah – I have traveled from the base of the Matterhorn in Switzerland to the summit of the Mt Etna, under human power.
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The group was training for the upcoming Virgin Strive Challenge – which will see participants hike, cycle, and run for charity in a month-long journey from the base of Matterhorn to the top of Mt. Etna in Sicily.
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Otherwise, I found the Biondi to be a typical example of an Etna Rosso, with earthy, tart flavors of sour cherries, a lean, graceful texture and a tight, focused aftertaste that fused fruitiness with a hint of bitterness.
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Hare had traipsed up and down a few volcanoes in his time, including in Sicily, and his shrewd eye discerned that the lava fields of Etna were not in fact the canonical black, but rather a black-brown.
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Mr. Dalton has conducted fascinating interviews with Thomas Duroux of Château Palmer, Ehren Jordan of Failla, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon of the great Champagne producer Louis Roederer, and Frank Cornelissen, a natural wine producer on Mount Etna in Sicily.
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Three euros and 225 steps later I was up at the cupola, with a wonderful view of the city and Mount Etna, one of the largest active volcanoes on the continent, looming only somewhat menacingly in the background.
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Go light on them, and you have a butter, garlic and herb sauce, which will go beautifully with any number of dry whites: Muscadet, Chablis or other white Burgundies, sauvignon blanc, Soave, Etna Bianco or assyrtiko from Santorini.
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CATANIA, Italy, Dec 26 (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring magnitude 4.8 hit the area north of Catania on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily early on Wednesday, causing some damage to buildings and a few injuries, officials said.
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It doesn't matter which region or what grape, it seems to cut across both, whether Valpolicella of the Veneto, Barbera d'Asti of the Piedmont, Chianti Classico of Tuscany, the aglianicos of Campania or the Etna Rossos of Sicily.
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It's too high for nerello mascalese, the signature red grape of Etna, so farmers more than 210 years ago planted grenache, alicante bouschet, minella bianca and others that Mr. Foti has not identified, all in a small, walled vineyard.
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"If you go to the top of Mount Etna it will feel like northern Europe," said Bernardo Scammacca del Murgo, one of eight brothers who own Tenuta San Michele, a vineyard and agriturismo on the eastern side of the mountain.
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In their own idiosyncratic ways, they made the case that Etna, ignored by the world of fine wines, and with many old vineyards that had largely been neglected or abandoned by the locals, could be a source of beautiful, distinctive wines.
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Other wines, eminently capable of aging — like the chenin blancs and cabernet francs of the Loire Valley, the reds of Mount Etna and blaufränkisches of the Burgenland, to say nothing of well-made rosés and sherries — require more intuitive guidance.
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If you cannot find them, look for other bottlings from these producers, as well as Etna Biancos from Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Biondi, Russo, Murgo, Planeta, I Custodi (also associated with the producer Salvo Foti), Barone di Villagrande and Pietra Dolce.
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In fact, it's such a large number of appearances that most solvers either roll their eyes at this bit of crosswordese, or fill in ETNA as soon as they see the word "mountain" in a clue, simply out of habit.
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Sipping the wine with Mr. Foti in Quattro Archi, a delightful osteria in the town of Milo, it was easy to imagine the days not so long ago when arduous farming, not tourism, was the primary work of Etna. 21964.
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The Benanti was 100 percent carricante, while the Graci was 70 percent carricante and 30 percent catarratto, a white grape found throughout Sicily, and the Aurora was 90 percent carricante and 10 percent minnella, a rare Sicilian white found almost exclusively on Etna.
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Start in Italy, and you have choices ranging from Etna Bianco from the island of Sicily in the south to vermentinos from Liguria in the northwest, Soaves and tocai friulanos in the northwest and many in between, including fianos, Orvietos and verdicchios.
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I had made a promise to myself during an earlier visit to Sicily that if Etna ever erupted while I was still in Italy, I would drop everything, jump on the next plane to Catania, and get as close to the eruption as I could.
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There's not a lot that's new — although I liked seeing the debut of HEAR ME OUT — and there are some of the "old reliables" in there, like SRO, ETNA and EEO, as well as some partials and suffixes which bring down the quality of the fill.
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"This is aimed at simulating a future, hypothetical landing mission on the moon or Mars and they use a lot of robots which are there to transport and install different instruments", said Boris Behncke, a volcanologist from the National Vulcanology Institute in Catania, near Mount Etna.
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Pliny knew quite a lot about volcanoes—according to him, the ashes from Mt. Etna fell on towns as far as thirty-five miles away, while the hottest lava in the world flowed from a summit in Ethiopia—because he knew quite a lot about everything.
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They have been joined more recently by others like Alberto Aiello Graci, whose family ran a construction business in Catania, the nearest big city, and by Anna Martens of Australia and Eric Narioo of France, a couple who created Vino di Anna on Etna in 19813.
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Last spring's eruption of Mount Etna, which routed a party of BBC journalists and tourists with bombs of red-hot lava (their panicked flight recorded on film and dutifully fire-hosed on the internet), reminded me of an earlier expedition — similarly exhilarating, but with better luck.
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If your woo-woo tendencies run a little more reflective, check out Mira Ptacin's The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna, an engaging first-person account of the time the author spent at a remote Maine camp where people commune with the dead.
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WAYNE GERSEN, ETNA, N.H. To the Editor: Until charters are held to the same standards and requirements as traditional public schools (such as free or reduced lunch, transportation, special services for the disabled, standardized testing, teacher pay, state and federal mandates), you are comparing apples to oranges.
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In a fiery reminder of its presence and its power, Mount Etna roared to life this week on the island of Sicily, sending red-hot fountains of molten rock and ash high into the air and down the slopes of Europe's largest and most active volcano.
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One of Barca's owners, Vic Rallo, wearing a camo-print trucker hat, launched into a detailed explanation of the 2017 Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso, which originated in the rocky, lava-rich soil of Sicily—among the hardest places on earth to grow grapes, he pointed out.
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According to another sheriff report from a facility in Etna, Ohio, filed in July 2018, a man had said that "with all the demands his employer has placed on him and things he's dealing with in life, [it was] becoming too much," and that he'd consider hurting himself.
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NASA shared this image of Italy's Mount Etna erupting today, after European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet posted it on Twitter from the International Space Station: Image: ESA/NASAThe streaks from Etna's lava flow are visible in the bottom left quadrant, isolated from the nearby glow of the 300,000-person city of Catania.
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But Wes Wood, 77, the founder and owner of Unimax, said that as his business grew, he started to get 90 percent of his equipment from Etna — all of the tubes, frames, grips, springs, and needle bars that make up a tattoo machine, the remains of which still litter 423-44 Bond.
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BRONTE, Sicily — Like the big, sweet onions of Vidalia, Ga., the tiny dusky lentils from Le Puy in France, and prosciutto from the area around Parma, Italy, there's something so special about the pistachios grown here in the foothills of Mount Etna in eastern Sicily that they have been granted government protection.
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One former Amazon warehouse worker in Etna, Ohio who manned an inventory-counting station for $14.50 an hour, Nick Veasley, said he had to process hundreds of items an hour and described managers so focused on metrics that workers were afraid to talk to one another, lest they be accosted for an unauthorized break.
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Michelle Myles, the co-owner of Daredevil Tattoo and its Tattoo Museum, along with employees at Fineline Tattoo and Fun City Tattoo, two of the oldest parlors in New York, all said that the city's largest supplier of tattoo equipment was Unimax Supply Company, and that they had never heard of Etna Tool & Die.
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