Carlo Corino, the Man Who Made Sicilian Wine Famous, Has Passed Away
Carlo Corino, the Piedmontese enologist who made Sicilian wine famous, has passed away. A personality who shied away from the clamor and the spotlight of the Italian wine world, Corino was a top level technician in terms of experience and skill. His name will be forever linked to the success of Planeta with whom, in 1989, he became involved in a collaboration that sparked rebirth of Sicilian wine. Working simultaneously at Cantine Settesoli and Planeta, Corino introduced techniques that, at that time, were completely innovative and even unthinkable for a territory that was so behind enologically speaking.
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