In a nutshell: Dessert wine tradition but in complete transformation. Main grapes: Catarratto, Inzolia (white); Nero d'Avola, Nerello Mascalese (red). Sicily is as...

Please note that italics refer to grape varieties that have their own entries in this guide to hundreds of the most significant grapes currently grown around the world to produce white...

Find this wine   This week’s wine is not only deliciously easy to like and thoroughly unlike any other wine I have tasted, it also teaches us a lot about relative pricing...

See also tasting notes on nearly 60 Etna wines. One of the most exciting things about my job is the discovery of a new wine region. And these are not always in far-flung corners...

As the waiter in the Osteria Antica Marina in Catania, Sicily, a 15 minute drive from the airport, brought us the second half of the dozen or so small white bowls that constituted this fish...

Those of you with extremely good hearing and sufficient persistence to watch the entire fourth video may have heard Andrea Franchetti referring to the shepherds whom he has found to be the biggest...

See also my overview Etna - the burgundy of the Mediterranean? The nearly 60 tasting notes below were taken at the Contrade dell’Etna wine fair described in my Sicilian video 1...

You may have found my earlier video of a village in rural China a bit juddery, but that was filmed on a smooth road. The footage below was filmed in a 4x4 attempting to navigate the roughest track...

The corpulent chef you see here popping out from the tent apparently works in the Passopisciaro winery during the day and in a local pizzeria at night. He was hard-pressed to keep up with demand...

Yesterday we saw preparations for the first big public wine event on the slopes of Mount Etna designed to show the differences between wines made in different districts on the northern face of...

As Julia and I douse our palates in hundreds of 2007s in Bordeaux this week, I leave you with images of my recent trip to Etna in Sicily to keep you amused. I shall be reporting on the...

  As I explained here , we celebrated the start of the New Year on Jan 1 rather than Dec 31 with a dinner in which arguably the food rather than the wine was the star.  ...

The following are notes taken at a tasting in London of Italian wines sold by Marco De Grazia in the US that are currently being offered by Justerini & Brooks in the UK.    ...

Find these wines The more wines I taste from the lava-prone slopes of Mount Etna, the more excited I am by this south eastern corner of Siciliy. I have previously raved about Andrea...

They have already started picking grapes for Prosecco in northern Italy and in Trento the harvest is underway – the earliest vendemmia since records began.   This is all...