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Friday, September 26, 2025

Maugeri Contrada Volpare Etna Bianco Superiore 2024 and 2022: ViniMilo 2025 MasterClass on Etna white wine identity

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The second set of wines tasted at the ViniMilo 2025 White Grape Identity of Etna Masterclass was from the Maugeri estate. Brandon and I visi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Barone di Villagrande Etna Bianco Superiore 2024 and 2021: ViniMilo 2025 MasterClass on White Wine Identity

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Evening Masterclasses are a staple of the ViniMilo experience; and the 2025 edition was no exception. One such Masterclass, held on Septembe...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

A tasting of selected vintages (2009 - 1978) of St. Julien's Chateau Léoville Poyferré

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"I liked all of the Leoville wines. The Las Cases was big and bold; the Barton, earthy; and the Poyferré elegant and poised." So s...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Etna Wines: Visit to Tenute Ballasanti

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In 2024 I had the pleasure of tasting the wines of Tenute Ballasanti for the first time and documented that experience in a subsequent blog ...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Wine imitating art: Salvo Foti's Mt Etna through the lens of Art History

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In a recent interview (11/9/25) with Gambero Rosso, Salvo Foti , the pillar of tradition in Mt Etna winemaking, described a Renaissance in M...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

A conversation with Maurizio Lunetta, Director, Etna DOC Consorzio

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I had been trying since last year to get a sit down with Maurizio Lunetta, Director of the Etna Consorzio, to gain his perspective on the cu...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Etna DOCs volcanic soils within the context of John Szabo’s “family of volcanic soils”

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After our VinoMilo 2025 Roundtable (Volcanic Wines — The Contemporary Evolution of Volcanic Winemaking) where John Szabo, author of Volcanic...