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What We’re Drinking – 2013 Donafugata Sdàra

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
A thoroughly enjoyable wine for any day of the week. A notable dark red, cooked fruit flavor, with integrated mild tannins and lively acidity give it just enough granularity and presence and a touch of fennel, too. Pour it liberally alongside simple meat dishes or traditional pasta with marinara sauce. Highly

Eat on the street (and drink!) in Italy

Elisabetta Tosi
Features
4 min read
One of the best parts of traveling in Italy is, without a doubt, the food and drink (mainly wine) that you find there. There are so many good restaurants everywhere in Italy you can choose where to go according to your taste – and your wallet of course. However, the

Seven Summer Wines for a Sicilian Dinner

Elisabetta Tosi
Features
4 min read
“Our Sicilian wines are ideal for people on diets, those who need minerals for sports practice, and for people with high blood pressure. You don’t even need to add salt to the water when you're cooking pasta, a good Inzolia wine is flavor enough, itself!” Giacomo Ansaldi, winemaker at Fazio

Diodoros: Wine Among the Ruins

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
3 min read
In Sicily, the Diodoros Project focuses on really old world wine. On a day that trembles between sunshine and showers, shafts of early morning sun slice through the clouds to light up the vineyard of Nero d’Avola grapes growing in this quiet corner of Sicily. It’s not a particularly unusual

In Italy, a tough vintage

Elisabetta Tosi
Feature Stories
4 min read
“We work in a factory without a roof, and have to accept what the sky gives us… but I have never seen a summer like this,” sighs the old grape grower. Living in an area of wine production puts me in touch with the daily problems, hopes, joys and frustrations of