A taste of Mount Etna

If a wine is made from grapes grown in lava soils on the slopes of Sicily’s towering Mount Etna volcano, can you taste Earth’s molten fire in the wine?

Well … maybe. But let’s be clear: terroir, the taste of the soil, is not the result of rocky particles somehow coming up from the soil into the grape. Sadly, that idea has been dismissed as a romantic myth.

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