After a very enjoyable morning in Randazzo – engaging with its artisan gelato and granita aspects, as well as its most notable “lava rock” church – we headed to lunch at a nearby winery, in very attractive countryside.
Its cellar was, essentially, a lava rock cave
I do not know whether the cellar was a modified, pre-existing cave, or a cavity largely or entirely made by humans.
In either event, its walls offered more than one surprise…
Obviously, a human sculpted this post’s hero from one of the cellar’s lava rock walls.
Probably, he is a version of Bacchus.
This series’ next chapter finds us still in the same cellar, but mystified by the relevant lava rock’s appearance!
Footnote
We were not greatly impressed by this particular producer’s wines, and thought their prices were more than slightly “inflated”.
Generally, “Etna” wines are premium-priced.
Elsewhere in our southern Italian travels we enjoyed some excellent “Etna Bianco” and “Etna Rosso” – respectively, white and red wines, that did merit their prices.
If you have access to a reputable Australian supplier of Italian wines, he or she would be able to sell you a bottle of delicious Etna wine that bears a price well south of “triple figures”.
You are, however, unlikely to find a really good one for much less than fifty dollars; please let me know if you do achieve that!