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A Tasting Guide to Sicilian Wines
Some of the finest wines in the world come from Italy. These Italian wines are often associated with refreshing tastes, are ...
Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing ...
With vineyards in five regions of Sicily, Planeta has been on the forefront of the island’s wine industry since 1995. The label’s Frappato, grown in the red sandy soils of Vittoria ...
While Italy’s wine scene is incredible from top to bottom, Sicily’s been stealing my heart. The island is literally a museum in itself, showcasing architectural gems from ancient Greek, Roman and ...
Grillo, Inzolia and Catarratto, the big three of the island's whites, made it big in the 1700s as the primary players in Marsala, Sicily's famous fortified wine. But after more than a century as ...
Sicilian wines are increasingly popular, and winemaking on the island dates back millennia to the Greeks. Marsala, in western Sicily, produces fortified wines by the same name, categorized by ...
Like Assuli’s other artistic and imaginative labels, “Dardinello” is the brave and courageous Saracen knight who was killed ...
Traditionally, Sicilian wines were destined for bulk blends, vermouths and cheap fortified wines. But times are changing; Sicily now produces some excellent wines – both red and white – using ...
It is our ongoing commitment that has enabled us to obtain SOStain certification for sustainable Sicilian winemaking.” The wine contained in the bottled, Donnafugata’s Lighea, is created from ...
There are several wine areas throughout Sicily, and you will find a concentration of independently owned vineyards in the south of the island. “Most of the grapes produced in this area are Nero ...