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Etna wine history

Vines have been cultivated on Mount Etna since ancient times, maybe from the beginning of the Bronze age, that is 4 or 5 millennium ago. The Greeks introduced new systems of cultivation and elevated wine to a deeply-rooted cultural phenomenon. Theocritus wrote about the vineyards on the slopes of Mount Etna in the 3rd century BC. Despite the difficulties due to the volcano eruptions and the presence of fine sands in the soils that damage the vines, the wines produced today on the slopes of the volcano are of an excellent quality. So it was Etna that received Sicily’s first DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) in 1968. At roughly between 450 and 1,250 meters altitude, Etna DOC follows a broad crescent clockwise around the contours of Etna, from inland Randazzo in the northwest, through Milo in the east around to Biancavilla in the southwest. 85% of production include dry red or rosé wines, with 15% of dry white.

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Agrosan Sicilia sas Contrada Torre Allegra 095 523248
Az. Ag. Binoche Piazza Trento, 2 333 5338152
Az Al-Cantàra Via Antonio Cucchi, 23 095 222644
Az. Bonaccorsi Vincenzo Via Re Martino, 35 095 7122801
Az.  Dò Zenner Terra delle Sirene Via P. Mascagni, 72 095 530560
Az. Graci Via G. D'Annunzio, 125 348 7016773
Antica Tenuta dal Nanfro Viticoltori Biologici
Via Carrubella, 8/A
0933 60525
Az. Tuccari Enotur srl Via Milano, 97 095 5187155
Az. Vinicola Valenti Via Fleming, 20 095 505411
Az. Vitinicola Scalia Via F. Crispi, 247 095 533190
Az. Vitinicola Don Saro
Via Livorno, 1 095 386245
Cantine Edomè
Piazza G. Verga, 25 095 536632
Cantine Italia
Via G. De Felice, 46
095 2503140
Compagnia delle vigne dell'Etna Via Trieste, 17 095 374099
D'Angelo Adele Az. agricola Via Mantova, 6 095 7143456
Enoteca Florio
Via Vitt. E. Orlando, 129 095 505262
Fattorie Romeo del Castello
Via Pietra dell'ova
095 7991992
La Bottega del Vino Via O. Scammacca, 23 095 430144
Tenute Mazza
Via Ughetti, 5
346 8053292
Terre Grasso Salina
Viale XX Settembre, 45 095 7167420
Vineria La Carretta Via S. Anna, 13 347 8039402
Vini Biondi s.r.l
Via Cervignano, 29 392 8191538
Viniti s.r.l.
Corso delle Provincie, 99
095 539524