Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. Sicily has many positive images (as well as a few ...

When oenophiles think about Italy, it is almost second nature to think about the wine varieties associated with each region. Piedmont has barolo. Tuscany has Chianti. But, when thinking about Sicily, ...

(Note: This is the second story in a series about wines and wineries in Sicily visited by the author.) So many things about Sicily seems magical. The winetasting dinner beneath the stars in a ...

My family is originally from Sicily. I am very proud of that and announce it as often as I can. And while Italy proper is well-recognized for its deep, sexy wines, the actual island of Sicily was long ...

We love invitations that arrive by the glass. At a recent tasting of Sicilian wines, we became so enamored with the reds that we were poised to hop on the next plane to Palermo. The occasion was a ...

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 ...

Last week, I raved about three Italian wines that just happen to come in a box. This week, I thought we could stay in Italy and focus on one, distinct region – Sicily. One wine column cannot do ...

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 ...

We’ve talked about the wines of Sicily before with author and television personality Vic Rallo and wine consultant and former professor Tony Verdoni. Back then, they recommended a Sicilian Chardonnay ...

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 ...

The wine drinking began before we left Newark, N.J., with a clink and a “salud” in the airport lounge over some unidentified white. My father and I, belatedly fulfilling the college graduation gift he ...