Category: Sicilian Wine
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Sicilian Wines Only in Sicily, Please
Cin cin! Look at it. Smell it. Taste it. Enjoy it! Here’s a glimpse at a recent wine tasting I did in Menfi at Mandrarossa Winery. I enjoyed these wines immensely. Sicily is a major grape growing region with many different grape varieties you’ve probably never heard of. These presented here are five grapes for…
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November’s Biscuits in Sicily
Buona Festa di San Martino! November 11 is La Festa di San Martino, or Saint Martin’s Day. It marks the first tasting of the new wine, known as “novello.” September marked the grape harvest, when the grapes are picked, cleaned, and macerated to make juice (must or “mosto”) that was then left to ferment. Traditionally…
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May in Sicily with Etna Wines
Aannnd… We’re on the road! May is traditionally our busiest month of travel in Sicily (mid-September through October is a very close second), and it’s proving true this year too. Our experience today was on Mount Etna: Crater walking and wine tasting with Etna Wine School at Cottanera winery. We learned about the terroir of…
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July Etna Wine Events in New York
We’re hosting two wonderful events at the end of July in the New York Area. Join Us! Etna’s Inimitable Wines:A Tasting Dinner in New York City Join Experience Sicily and Etna Wine School at Cacio e Pepe restaurant in New York City for a six-course dinner and tasting of Etna wines. Join Allison Scola from Experience…
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Wine Lovers Take Note! Special Co-host to Join Stirring Sicily Late August Tour
Experience Sicily is pleased to announce that Benjamin North Spencer, author of The New Wines of Mount Etna and Director of Etna Wine School, will be joining our small-group cooking and wine tour, Stirring Sicily, this August 28 to September 4 as a special co-host. Bringing his profound knowledge of Sicilian wines and experience…
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Day 4 of 16 Days of Sicily | Wines, Vines, and Volcanoes
Sicily is teeming with grapes (and at least three active volcanoes), so I implore you, open your mind and heart to wines you haven’t heard of, and you will be so happy that you did. Nero d’Avola, Frappato, Perricone, Nerello Cappuccio, Nerello Mascalese (and these are just the reds!), (now for some white) Catarratto, Carricante,…
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New York City Sicilian Wine Tasting With Etna Wine School
Grazie mille to Benjamin North Spencer of Etna Wine School and Cacio e Pepe New York for co-hosting Experience the Wines of Sicily with us yesterday in New York City! Thank you to everyone who attended and spent the afternoon with us! It was a delicious day of spectacular wines coupled with Benjamin’s explanations and…
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Experience the Wines of Sicily January 6 in New York City
Please join award-winning author Benjamin North Spencer of Etna Wine School and me, Allison Scola of Experience Sicily, on Saturday, January 6 at 3PM in New York City at Cacio e Pepe restaurant for an afternoon enogastronomic tour of Sicily! That is, a wine tasting! Learn more and register at Experience the Wines of Sicily!
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Sicilian Red Wine: Nero D’Avola
Nero d’Avola is a grape native to Sicily. In recent years, this varietal has become more present on wine lists in the United States. Look for it the next time you’re at your favorite Italian restaurant. And tell me what you think!