Wine & Travel Mediterranean Islands

I picked this up before a trip to Corsica and ended up reading the whole thing on the flight. The sections on the windswept vineyards there gave me a real sense of the place before I'd even landed, and the writing on salt and sun in the island wine culture is lovely without being flowery.

Bought this before a trip to Corsica and the section on the windswept vineyards there actually helped me pick which bottles to look for. My only gripe is that the maps are a bit small, but the writing on the island wine history is worth it.

The chapter on Sicily's volcanic soils finally explained why the Etna wines I tried tasted so mineral. Wish the island maps were a bit larger, but the vineyard detail more than makes up for it.