I t’s wet and foggy. And some of us are scared. The long days are now a thing of memory. We are steeped in darkness. And all the while the...

"Able was I ere I saw Etna" Memory is an odd bedfellow. Even without the vicissitude of time or trauma it can be a transitory ...

Eric Asimov (L) with Salvo Foti (R) at Quattro Archi in Milo on Etna I n the last month or so, my life of wine (and food) has ventured ...

R olling down SS120 from Randazzo to Passopisciaro, there’s a modern structure, empty and abandoned. It could be a dystopian bunker, built...

A fter 30 years of going to Etna, I’ve learned there is a simple way and there is the hard way. I’ve done the hard way a time or two. Simp...

I taly is a place of confluence, in the flesh, and in the mind’s eye. One of the mindscapes I reach into, especially when going into souther...

2 014 has been a crazy year for weather patterns. There seems to be controversy brewing over the quality of the 2014 vintage in Italy. I...

Frank Cornelissen's Etna Harvest 2013 wrap party in Austin Etna Nov 11 - Photo: VolcanoDiscovery.com I s wine and pizza a divine ...

T he latest note from Salvo Foti on Mt. Etna is a series of images - They pulled fruit off the old vineyard the Vignabosco (elev 1300 mt....

This just in from my winemaking friend Salvo Foti . Salvo is bringing in the last of the harvest from his Etna vineyards and this is a re...

T he ferry is closed, rough waters in the Strait of Messina. Airplanes cannot fly in and out of Catania airport, too much ash from Etna. A...

I n trying to comprehend what Etna means, to the area, to Sicily and to the world beyond, one visit will not reveal much. There are those ...

Gioacchino Campanella ~ Buon “quarumaru” - photo by Manuela Laiacona T his last trip, first through France and then Italy, was one of t...

T he drive from Etna to Chiaramonte Gulfi was one for the books. After saying goodbye to Salvo Foti and his family I headed out. He had re...

I was running late to the town of Passopisciaro on Sunday. Somewhere between Palermo and Catania when I tried to get onto the highway, th...

The unbearable heat of summer makes for an unexpected adventure of remembrance We were supposed to be flying over Etna, but for some reaso...

Some time back, when I was invited to Sicily to evaluate several vineyard projects, a few of us were sitting around the midnight table with ...