Experience Sicily

Tag: winery

  • The Grapes Tell Us When

    The grapes are getting ready for the harvest! Almost time to make the mosto for the wine.

  • Live from Sicily! Remote Town, Day 3

    Live from Sicily! Day 3 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town. Cheese making demonstration with ricotta, fresh out of the cauldron with Salvatore Polizzi at the dairy! Mmmmm! We learned about life in a remote farming village, Buscemi, with a demonstration of their local ritual breadmaking for San Biagio. Then, a winery tour and…

  • Best Wishes To Cantina Quattrocieli

    Cantina Quattrocieli in Alcamo, Sicily, a winery I visited in September (pictured), reported that they tasted their novello (new wine) for San Martino, and they are happy with the results thus far. For the young wine makers, who are still growing their business and perfecting their craft, this is wonderful news! Bravi e auguri!

  • Meet Me at the Enoteca

    An enoteca is a wine shop, where one samples wine that is served with the intention that you’ll purchase a few bottles. Often light snacks are served with the wine. This enoteca pictured is at Planeta’s Ulmo winery in Sambuca di Sicilia. Cin Cin!

  • Farm on Etna

    Farm on the north side of Mount Etna.

  • Like A Conductor of An Outstanding Orchestra

    I love creating extraordinary experiences for our clients. Like this one, presenting a dreamy setting for our group’s dinner this evening. Well, I can only take a tiny piece of credit for it, really! Like a conductor who is supported by an outstanding orchestra, there are so many players that make something like this happen–Sicilian…

  • Sip and Savor 

    Slowly savor Sicilian wines during your first evening in Sicily with a wine tasting and dinner pairing … Experience it on September 23 … Contact me at AllisonScola@ExperienceSicily.com for the full, 8-day, small-group, multi-sensory tour itinerary. 

  • Sicily’s Wines: Taste for Yourself

    In recent years, Sicily has attracted the interest of serious wine connoisseurs. And with good reason: its terroir offers rich, volcanic soil, many grape varieties, numerous microclimates, and multiple generations of vines. Combine that with a new generation of vintners, and that equates to fantastic wines. You may be familiar with Nero d’Avola, Marsala, Grillo,…

  • Our May Tour, Day 9: A Multi-sensory Experience

    We’ll walk into the vines with the owner of Feudo Montoni vineyard on Day 9 of our Experience Sicily May 19-31 tour with Chef Melissa Muller. Fabio will explain to us his wine-making process, take us through the estate’s cantinas, and pair his different wine varietals with the food that we’ll be making with Chef…