Palmento
A Sicilian wine odyssey
Robert V Camuto
Published by University of Nebraska Press
First edition 2010
ISBN 9780803239951
Winemakers can be extremely difficult people. Imagine devoting your life to something that you can only do once a year. That’s before you bring in the weather, bureaucracy and internal politics. It takes a special sort of bloody-mindedness to be a great winemaker, but many books shy away from this in favour of an idealised, Instagram-friendly vision of what goes on in the vineyard. Not Robert...