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Tasting articles 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 • 6 min read

A bottle of Zibibbo with as Scrabble board in the background

Free for all WWC25 – An ode to Zibibbo, by Joseph Rosenfeld

Joseph Rosenfeld writes this passionate entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Zibibbo – Muscat of Alexandria's Sicilian alter ego. See this guide to our competition for more fantastic...

Guest contributor Sunday 31 August 2025 • 1 min read

Free for all WWC25 – The king of Mount Etna: Nerello Mascalese, by Giovanni Di Guardo

In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Giovanni Di Guardo writes about Nerello Mascalese, a distinctive grape variety cultivated on Sicily's Mount Etna. See the guide to our...

Guest contributor Thursday 28 August 2025 • 1 min read

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COS Frappato 2008 IGT Sicilia

From €10.05, £13.49, US$24.99 Find this wine. Sometimes you taste a wine and you want to do two things at...

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Vino contro la mafia

Charities which focus on the production of wines can expect to elicit the same reaction most organic wines have provoked...

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Planeta 2006 Cerasuolo di Vittoria, IGT Sicilia

Find this wine This week’s wine is not only deliciously easy to like and thoroughly unlike any other wine I...

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Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean?

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also tasting notes on...

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Etna – the tasting notes

See also my overview Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean? The nearly 60 tasting notes below were taken at...

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Tenuta Terre Nere, Calderara Sottana 2005 Etna Rosso

Find these wines The more wines I taste from the lava-prone slopes of Mount Etna, the more excited I am...

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Passopisciaro 2001 IGT Sicilia

before... ...and after. Andrea Franchetti is best known for his isolated and grandly, nay, idiosyncratically ambitious southern Tuscan propertyTenuta di...