It's like some of those wines that were made in the probably, you know, quite deep poverty and quite challenging times have probably been opened, you know, on the tables of kings and queens around the world it's it's again i think just a good reminder of what wine can do and how it does transport that message around the world

i think that's that's very true and it's um it tells all sorts of stories and i think there's um you know in in the language There's a story of white truffles, of course, which draws people to the region.

There's a story of methanol and how it nearly destroyed the lives of a number of growers.

When wine was adulterated with methanol just to increase the alcoholic degree, they meant to do it with ethanol, and they ended up killing 20-odd people.

so there's you know you sort of look at that and you think gosh it could have gone terribly wrong at that occasion and yet there was you know if you believe that there's an opportunity in every problem you know there was there for especially for the growers because some people started to think well instead of buying from big bottlers I'm going to you know cheap wine I'm going to spend a bit more but I'll go to people who grow the grapes and bottle the wines themselves so that provided a great opportunity for them and then there's You think there was the depopulation to a degree in the Lange when people left to go work in Alba at Ferrero or to Turin to work for Fiat or the other industries there or to Milan.

And the people who left behind were regarded as being the slower cousins, as it were.

And today, they're the ones that are...

So what did you do then, David, to bring all that together and put the writing process, I'd say on easy mode, but on the easiest possible mode that you could?

And what are the great- main grape varieties there?

Um, for the white wines, a, a grape called Carricante, which is a, a really underrated variety, but now starting to get its due, and that sort of, you know, gotta form at least 60% of the blend for Etna Bianco, 80% of the blend for Etna Superiore.

But, you know, the good producers will make primarily, um, their whites from Carricante.

The red grapes are Nerello Mascalese is the most famous.

Um, and it's, it'll also be used, some people make white wines with it or some people will make a, a, a blanc de noir or a little bit, use a little bit of Nerello Mas- Mascalese vinified as a white wine to blend with their Carricante.

And then there's Nerello Cappuccio, which, uh, can be blended with Nerello Mascalese, um, and used, uh, you know, just to soften it in a way.

It's a sort of slightly bigger berries, uh, s- slightly sort of, um, bigger bunches, makes softer wine.

fragmented.How many producers are there, and which ones are the most famous?

But what do we actually know?

We know very little.

There is, um, recorded data through some popular flight- flight tracking radar, um, applications that people can see.

We know approximately where the airplane started its takeoff roll on the runway, and we know how long the airplane flew for and- and where it hit the ground.

Beyond that, we're into the realms of speculation, be it informed or pure guesswork.

So, at- at the end of the day, um, the investigation teams are being formed.

The protocol is that the Indians, uh, will invite various countries to participate in the investigations and technical experts.

And I suppose the other thing that we don't know yet is how many people will have lost their lives on the ground, because it did crash in a residential area.