The Wines of Etna: A Rebirth on the Slopes of the Volcano

Nick Czap

ON A LATE JULY MORNING, the sun was intensifying over Piazza Belvedere, the main square in the village of Milo on the eastern slope of Mount Etna. A group of what appeared to be Sicilian Girl Scouts milled about in the piazza, whose far edge afforded a view of the Etna foothills and, jutting into the sea like a finger, the port of Riposto, which for cen…