It’s widely known that where the wine is grown, and in what type of soil, can dramatically change how a wine tastes.
Most wines are grown in one of four types of soil: sandy, clay, silt, and limestone.
But now there is a burgeoning trend of appreciation for wine that comes from grapes grown in volcanic soil.
According to Master Sommelier John Szabo, author of “Volcanic Wines: Salt, Grit and Power,” the volcanic earth creates a more savoury taste, rather than fruity or sweet.
He told CTV’s Your Morning that volcanic wines can be found on the western coast of America as well as in Europe and they can be white or red.
Tasting a white wine from Santorini, Greece, Szabo described the wine “salty, saline, crunchy.”
Szabo and host Lindsey Deluce also tasted a red wine from the Canary Islands in Spain and another from Italy which he described as being “wonderfully perfumed, savoury potpourri, floral,” and “substantial”.
Szabo spent four years travelling around the world tasting the wines and writing about them in his book, which is now available for purchase.
Watch the full interview to find out more about trendy volcanic wines.
