Le Figaro
This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-Série “Eternal Sicily”
, which devotes a double issue of 170 pages to the Italian island, magnificently illustrated, in which its history, charms and beauties come to life
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It was, sang Homer, thanks to this delicious wine that Ulysses had his life: he intoxicated the Cyclops Polyphemus, near a volcano with a round eye that strongly resembled Etna.
Gift of Dionysus to men, this divine beverage which marks, wherever it appeared, the beginning of civilization, offers today, on the slopes of Etna, its highest expression.
In his pastoral idylls, Theocritus already praised the wines of Etna, the Romans considered them the best of the time and, in the 2nd century BC, exported them en masse, even in Gaul!
The luck of these volcanic wines was that they circulated very well, in amphorae that we found by the dozen in the wrecks of boats, off the Sicilian coast.
A chance, which over time would be a weakness:
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