Sicily’s Mount Etna is one of the hottest and fastest-growing wine regions in all of Italy. Its vineyards sweet across the mid-slopes of Europe’s most active volcano and are divided into 142 subzones called contrade.
When Bolgheri natives Cinzia Merli and Eugenio Campolmi founded Le Macchiole in 1983, the Tuscan coast was a backwater among Italian wine regions, producing mostly rosé wines.