Serve at 18°C. 12.5% Alcohol The 2022 Epicuro Nero d'Avola begins with an aroma of mostly red berry and cherry cough drop fruit on the nose along with touches of licorice and spice.

Cantine Ermes Epicenter Nero D’Avola Riserva Sicily DOC 2018 ($20-25). This is the current vintage of this very drinkable red wine. Earthy cherry notes with a hint of oak present on the palate.

Today, excellent single-variety wines produced entirely of Nero d’Avola have come to define the reds made from the grape. Nero is a rather tannic variety, and these wines tend to showcase power and ...

Nero d'Avola – the name means "black from Avola" – is anything but a shrivelling sissy. Tannic and full-bodied, it thrives in the heat like an oiled-up Muscle Beach bodybuilder.

Whereas nearly 50,000 acres of nero d’Avola grow on Sicily, only 9,000 acres of nerello mascalese thrive (although that is increasing by the year).

For the main course, we have two reds — a stylish, medium-bodied nero d’avola from Sicily’s Planeta winery and an old-vines grenache from Domaine Lafage in southwestern France.

This fantastic Nero d' Avola starts out with aromas roasted coffee, licorice and dark cherries. Flavors of blackberry, plums, vanilla, spice and coconut coat the mouth in a velvety texture.

But nero can make the full range, from light and simple to full-bodied and structured – wines that can cope with hearty food and are capable of ageing. Seppeltsfield Nero d'Avola 2020, Barossa ...