Great sign--Arianna's wines resemble her--easy-going, ultra-Sicilian, totally original. I am crazy about the area's red varietals, Nero d'Avola and Frappato. At COS they are made into single varietal ...
Before our recent trip to Sicily, I expected all Sicilian wines to be red, dry and full-bodied. Was I ever wrong! The first Sicilian surprise came before we even started our wine travels. We flew to ...
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. I was almost an hour late when I arrived at Azienda Cos on a broiling August day, but owner ...
When last we left our intrepid Sicily, there were auspicious signs from the slopes of Mount Etna, its defining and still active volcano. The reds of Etna ( sfg.ly/ZqOCLo), and the whites as well, had ...
Sicily's white grapes are finally getting the recognition they deserve. It only took two centuries. Grillo, Inzolia and Catarratto, the big three of the island's whites, made it big in the 1700s as ...
The term “natural wine” can conjure up many strong reactions, and many of them are not positive. While natural wines can show the diverse personality of a wine, others think of natural wines as full ...
This is the first of a four-part series exploring Sicily’s wines. In Part One, I will give a brief overview of Sicilian wines. In Parts Two and Three, we will highlight Sicily’s top rated white and ...