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Tasting articles Recovering Marsala's history – the wine reviews

Part 2 of Walter’s in-depth look at the new generation of producers reviving Marsala’s reputation. Above, Nino Barraco, one of the movement’s stars. For background, see part 1: Recovering Marsala’s...

Walter Speller Wednesday 14 January 2026 • 5 min read

Inside information Recovering Marsala's history – without the British

Walter Speller Tuesday 13 January 2026 • 1 min read

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

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Cerasuolo di Vittoria – Sicily's DOCG

Cerasuolo di Vittoria, Sicily's first (and so far only) DOCG in a sea of vino da tavola and a handful...

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DOC Sicilia proposed

At this year's Sicilia En Primeur 2010 event, of which more later, featuring the wines of 65 Sicilian producers grouped...

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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...