A few years ago, if you asked wine lovers where their favourite Italian wines came from, you would very often hear "Piedmont", "Tuscany", "South Tyrol", "Friuli" and "Lake Garda".

Today, however, many less well-known wine regions in Italy produce no less excellent wines. Regions such as Sardinia, Abruzzo, Valle d'Aosta and Campania come to mind just as quickly as, of course, Sicily. Italy's largest island actually has a long and remarkable history of fine wine production, but its reputation was severely damaged towards the end of the 20th century by mass production and the stereotypical cultivation of international grape varieties.

Today, more than 20 years later, all this is fortunately a thing of the past. Pioneers like Planeta or Tasca d'Almerita made it possible. Today, Sicily's viticulture is highly diverse and produces internationally renowned wines. In the new DOCs such as Noto, Etna, Pantelleria or even in the only Sicilian DOCG Vittoria to date, wines are produced which interpret the respective microclimate and terroir in a remarkable way and revolutionise the entire Sicilian viticulture. This produces excellent white wines from Carricante, Inzolia, Grillo and Chardonnay, the red varieties Nero d'Avola, Nerello Mascalese, but also Cabernet Sauvignon, Perricone and Nocera make the hearts of wine lovers all over the world beat faster. SUPERIORE.DE

For Robert Parker's Wine Advocate N°240 of 30.12.2018 Parker's chef taster for Italy, Monica Larner, tasted several hundred Sicilians. We are pleased that many of the highly rated winegrowers and wines have a firm place in our assortment for years!