This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 246.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns

and villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of

Bella Italia.

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes,

history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta.

If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there, you've come to the right place.

Ciao, Atuti.

Welcome to another Italian wine episode with our good friends, Olivia and Andrea,

from Italian Wine Tales. Today, we're heading over to the island of Sicily, where winemaking has been a

tradition for millennia, in fact, well before the Greeks and ancient Romans arrived.

Wine making here is part of the fabric of life and especially so on the slopes

of Mount Etna, Sicily's a smouldering volcano. This fertile volcanic soil is a perfect place to grow and

cultivate vines that go on to produce the most flavourful grapes for the local wine. Just like in many

areas of southern Italy, younger generations are taking hold of

local traditions and adding their own spin to the winemaking process. And so apart from the

volcano, it's definitely a fun time to try Sicilian wine. So let's find out more.

Bentonati, welcome back to the Untold Italy podcast, Olivia and Andrea.

Hey, Katie. Hi, everyone. Hello, hello. Always great to have you on the show, and we love chatting about Italian wine, don't we?

And I'm super, super excited about this episode because it's not often that you get to talk about wine made from grapes grown on the slopes

of an active and smouldering volcano.

Indeed, seriously, one of my absolute favourite wine regions.

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