Explore the Wineries of Etna

Etna's vineyards ring an active volcano, and altitude, rainfall, exposure and soil age shift sharply from one versante to the next – producing wines that vary as much by slope as by producer. This is the full set: every winery across all five versanti, plus those working nearby but outside the Etna DOC boundary. Filter below to explore a single face of the mountain.

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Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Marco de Grazia on why Nerello Mascalese belongs on Etna, what he learned from Burgundy and Barolo, and why he bottles the mountain cru by cru.

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Azienda Agricola Sciara

Part of the reason why I came here, when I realized that I could get a piece of land, was the diversity of the altitude. And also, the old vines...more

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Salvo Foti-I Vigneri

The Etnean territory, for its particular truncated-conical conformation, for its nature (it is a large mountain and an active volcano) for its altitude (over 3,000 meters), for its particular climate, ...more

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Palmento Costanzo

Serena Costanzo on 120-year-old vines, farming on an active volcano, and making Etna wine inside her family's restored stone palmento.

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I Custodi

It’s absolutely necessary because this is a tradition that we should never ever lose.

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Graci

Etna is a super active volcano. So an active volcano is a volcano that had minimum an eruption in the last 10,000 years, but Etna has a lot of eruptions ...more

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Generazione Alessandro

You start understanding your limits and, above all, respect your limits.

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Frank Cornelissen

Liquid rock was something which is very important for me because it’s a provocation as a concept. Liquid rock means, especially on Etna, the essence of Mother Earth in wine ...more

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Eduardo Torres Acosta

I am a garage winemaker, making wines from a group of eight small parcels on Etna in a garage I converted into a winery.

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Ciro Biondi

The alberello is a way to train the vines here on Etna, probably since the Greeks or the Romans. We use a chestnut pole like this one, and the vines ...more

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Bonaccorsi

My father taught me to respect the land and its fruits, he told me that we must support nature not try to counter it and change it.

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Benanti

Etna towers over Catania and over our lives and its presence is almost reassuring for us. It is a symbol of power and energy.

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Barone di Villagrande

Today I'm the 10th generation of wine producers on Etna. Never one harvest was skipped. For me, it's a big responsibility.