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Is white wine the future for Sicily?
Catarratto and Grillo get a makeover on Sicily, challenging the island’s ever-popular reds. Tasca d’Almerita’s vineyards on the island of Mozia in the Marsala lagoon are pictured above. Last May...
Walter Speller
Thursday 6 November 2025
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WWC25 – An ode to Zibibbo, by Joseph Rosenfeld
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Sunday 31 August 2025
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WWC25 – The king of Mount Etna: Nerello Mascalese, by Giovanni Di Guardo
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Thursday 28 August 2025
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22 September See additions from Settesoli below.
2 1 September Walter Speller assesses the life of the giant of Sicilian...
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The town of Marsala in Sicily may be best known for its dessert wine, but this wine of the week...
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The first of three collections of assorted Italian tasting notes. This time we work our way up the peninsula from...
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Jinglin Zhang is the founder of Grape Paradise, a boutique wine importer focusing on Italian wine in China. After gaining...
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It was surely inevitable that Sicily's first fine-wine producer would establish themselves on the volcano … bottle-shot by Benedetto Tarantino...
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Fancy a bit of escapism? Jonathan Reeve, who inspired our first escapist photo-portrait of a wine destination, Chambolle-Musigny, contributes his...
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A pure, expressive and finely textured red from the north slopes of the volcano.
2016 from €23.95, $34.99, £29.50
2017...
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Carlo Ferrini's own wines are light years from the ones that made his reputation as a winemaking consultant in Italy...
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Sicily's table wines may be riding high but the island's most famous fortified wine is in the doldrums, laments Tim...
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See also Tim’s cri de coeur about how complicated and under-promoted marsala is. Now, on with the story. To make...
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Julia tracks down a heart-winning, intense dry white from the Sicilian island of Lipari. From €13, $22, £18.50, 3,300 yen...
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Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and...
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See our guide to Walter's recent coverage of Sicily and also Faro and Mamertino together – a first. On my...
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For more on Walter's coverage of Sicily this year, see Sicily 2017 – the guide. Malvasia is the name of...
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For more on Walter's coverage of Sicily this year, see Sicily 2017 – the guide, in particular Hidden Etna part...
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See Sicily 2017 – the guide for all the fascinating articles in this series. There is a group of tiny...
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