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5218 Lawton Avenue
Oakland, CA 94114

510-654-9159

Oliver McCrum Wines has been importing small production Italian wine and distributing to fine retail and restaurant establishes throughout California since 1994. Over time, our portfolio of producers has steadily grown to over 45 producers from 15 different regions of Italy. We look for typical Italian wines with clarity and freshness, usually made from indigenous Italian grape varieties using clean, transparent winemaking techniques and no obvious use of oak. 

Sicilia

MT. ETNA

OLIVER’S NOTES:

Mount Etna is a huge, very active volcano on the island of Sicily. It stands more than 11,000 feet high, high enough for there to be skiing on the mountain in the winter; it dominates the city of Catania and can be seen from the whole north-east of the island.  Wine is said to have been produced here since Greek times, and there were as many as 50,000 hectares of vineyards here in the 1800s. (Now there are a little more than 1,000 hectares in production, some of them from before the plague of Phylloxera.) The countryside is still dotted with stone palmentos, the buildings that were used to crush grapes and make wine.

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