Readers may remember how only last year I raved about the Faro wines of two producers, Bonavita and Salvatore's Geraci's Palari estate . Faro is a tiny DOC perched on the windy hills at the...

Sicily, with its many layers of different civilisations such as the Greek one in evidence here at Agrigento, is one of the most thrilling places I have ever visited. My first visit was in 1970...

How many grape varieties does Italy have? 600? 800? 1,400? The Oxford Companion even estimates an impressive 2,000 different varieties [in the forthcoming Wine Grapes we examine almost 400...

The following tasting notes and observations on about 75 fine wines made at this year's presentation of Sicilian wines en primeur are divided by grape variety, since the island has such a rich...

Cerasuolo di Vittoria, Sicily's first (and so far only) DOCG in a sea of vino da tavola and a handful of osbcure, but potentially very interesting DOCs, showed itself with an easy-going...

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

Mitchell Everard, The Ivy’s genial maitre d’, greeted my host with his trademark smile and warm handshake and added almost in shock, “Well I am surprised to see you here at...

Here is a ragbag of Australian Shirazes to have come my way recently in approximate ascending price order - from a bargain and a dullard to the supposed crème de la crème, Grange...

From €13.50, $17.99, 129 Swedish krone, 1,010 roubles, £85 a dozen in bond Find this wine Here's a rosé to drink in a snowstorm, so solid, intriguing and comforting is it. It's...

8 Aug - Barbara Santilli adds, ' Although It's still hard to assess the damage, Andrea says we lost about 20% of the 2012 production; from Passopisciaro they're saying we lost the equivalent...

Last year I reported on Salvo Foti, one of Etna's most prominent consultant oenologists, and especially his stance on ambient yeasts (as can be read here and in this thread on our forum)....

On my recent visit to Tasca d'Almerita's estate in Sicily, I was keen to discuss the brand-new DOC Sicilia. As reported in Sicilia DOC , the former Sicilia IGT was elevated to the higher DOC...

‘Alberto Tasca d’Almerita – CEO’ reads his business card. It perfectly describes this elegantly clad, dynamic 40-something pictured below who, together with his brother Giuseppe, is in...

I am late. Actually, I am terribly late. On my way to Azienda Palari, owned by architect Salvatore Geraci and his brother Giampaolo, the estate's agronomist, and hidden somewhere in the hills of...

While Professor Scienza is trying to convince Sicilian producers to discover the wealth of their indigenous grape varieties (see Sicily - back to its roots ) and use them to spearhead the...