You may have heard of terms like “minerality” or “mineral salt content” at your latest wine tasting class or seminar. Or the words “crisp” “fresh” or “biting” when you hear a sommelier describing a wine (usually whites).
This is one of my favourite topic in wine tasting and “minerality” is one of my favourite component of wine.
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In order to get my dose of salts, I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Eolian Islands in the Tirreno Sea where you can find a high concentration of minerals in the soil (base vulcanic, pomice and limestone). The small vineyards mainly of Malvasia and Catarratto – two white indigenous varieties of Sicily – are located on tiny terraces on sea cliffs. Just beautiful.
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Lipari and Vulcano Islands feature great white wines. The name of the nearby island of Salina says it all. The island of salt!