Ben made wine on California’s Central Coast for ten years before moving to Mount Etna in 2012 to study the volcanic wines of Sicily. He is the founder of Etna Wine School and the author of The New Wines of Mount Etna, an award-winning book about the history and rebirth of Mount Etna’s wine culture.
A native of Los Angeles, California, Jennifer seems an unlikely match for the Etna locale. Delve a little deeper and you will discover that her curious nature, a love for creating, and a passion for cultural conservation; combined with a surprisingly-apt business acumen made building Etna vineyards from the rocks up, the perfect fit for this outlier.
Top 1010 Wines of 2011, San Francisco Chronicle
Holy shot, that oil is good! I want to do shots of it. Amazing stuff. So tasty; like nothing else I’ve tried.
Gourmand Award in Food Culture, 2021
Top 1010 Wines of 2011, San Francisco Chronicle