"Humanity since the dawn of time has been drawn to volcanoes," Szabo writes in his dedicated book. There's no such thing as volcanic wine," Szabo said to us. It's hard to talk about Italian wines without thinking about Italian volcanoes. But one thing is clear: without volcanism, the very nature of Italian wine would be profoundly different." Magma erupted from underocean fissures to form land volcanoes that then erupted, too, and mixed with the water's carbonic/limestone materials, heaving all onto land during the eruptions.

Source: Forbes May 16, 2018 15:00 UTC