The Benanti family from Bologna would not have thought that one of their descendants would end up producing wine in Sicily when one of their members was sent there in 1734 by King Vittorio Amedeo d’Aosta. Etna was a volcano whose fertility made the surrounding lands extremely suited to wine production, to the point that the nearby city of Catania had reached the record of Sicilian production in the mid-1800s, even owning a school of oenology (1881) and its own wine office (1886). [Read more…] about Etna Rosso Riserva Rovittello Parcella n.341 2015, Benanti
