With its Mediterranean climate and nutrient-rich soil, the unassuming city of Avola is home to a millennia-old almond-growing ...

An absolute classic from the “right bank” of Bordeaux where Merlot dominates but there is a significant amount of Cabernet in ...

If you want to have a red wine instead, Stemmari’s Nero d’Avola ($18) is a delicious cascade of dark berry fruit aromas and salty sea air, an ideal mate for non-sauced barbecue.

Visitors to either Sicily or Sardinia, Italy’s two great island destinations, don’t have to travel far once they arrive to find some of the country’s best wineries, and best vino-tourism options. In ...

There are few wineries in Sicily that are able to offer not just wines, but a real journey through the island; Firriato is one of them.

In Sicily, there’s Mt. Etna in the east (wineries on an active volcano, why not?), which has over the past decade become one of Italy’s most exciting wine destinations; Marsala in the west, with its ...

Sicily has produced wine for four thousand years, and it seems at least half of them were spent making Marsala. But slowly, surely, quality white-wine grapes like Grillo and Inzolia are challenging ...

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.

While “White Lotus” brought tourism to the north of Sicily, the south has so much more to see — from beach clubs and wine to ...