You might think of Sicily as a quintessential Mediterranean wine region, producing wines of warm power and hefty strength. Sicily is in fact a place of much complexity, combining multiple, different influences – this identity, at the crossroads of continents and cultures makes it a unique place, making equally unique and diverse wines. Thanks to […]
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“We want to bring back tradition and to come up with a wine that speaks about Sicily in a different way – it’s what the market wants, you need a wine with a point of difference, there’s no point in producing just another wine,” says Stefano Girelli
Last month six Sicilian grape varieties were added to the Italian National Register of Grape Varieties, ones that were believed to have died out years ago. As with many similar ampelographical discoveries, a single vine of each variety was found in a domestic garden or in desolate terrain – a high mountain slope, for example. One of the varieties was white, Recunu, while the other five were red: Inzolia Nera, Lucignola, Orisi, Usirioto and Vitatolo.