Wine bar · Randazzo

Mount Etna Wineries

Donnafugata opened its flagship Etna cantina in Randazzo in 2016 featuring barrique cellar with Etna views, guided vineyard tours, and professional tastings highlighting volcanic terroir from their 600-950m altitude holdings.

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TastingMount Etna WineriesAncient vines at 1,000m elevation on volcanic soil. Some vines are pre-phylloxera (150+ years old). The elevation and volcanic minerals create wines unlike anywhere else.

Wine bars nearby

Wine bar Tenuta delle Terre Nere - Northern Slope Mastery Mount Etna's northern slopes in a wine bar—Tenuta delle Terre Nere pours volcanic Etna Rosso from biodynamic vineyards where Marco de Grazia pioneered 1000m high elevation wines.
Wine bar · Castiglione di Sicilia Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti) - Contrada Pioneer Andrea Franchetti restored a 1000-meter farm on Etna's slopes in 2000, pioneering Mount Etna's volcanic Nerello Mascalese renaissance by bottling six distinct contradas from different lava flows.
Wine bar · Passopisciaro Graci - Organic Volcanic Excellence Alberto Aiello returned from Milan banking in 2004 to farm 5 hectares of certified organic Etna — Nerello Mascalese aged in concrete tanks captures 1000 years of Mount Etna viticulture.