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 ...

If you can't make it to Italy this summer, pick up a bottle of Grillo. Ian Shaw / Alamy Stock Photo A good glass of Grillo wine can transport you to the sandy shores of Sicily, no matter where you ...

(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 ...

The boat putters over the shallow lagoons, past some quaintly gloomy-looking salt pans and away from the Sergio Leone mise en scene that is Marsala, pausing to idle stutteringly on the edge of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

WITH A NAME like a lively dance step and a flavor profile so juicy and bright that it’s frequently described as falling somewhere between a red and a white, Frappato is one of my absolute favorite ...