Sicily Guide

An article came across my attention the other day. It talks about Sicilian wines and confirms what I already think it is happening in the wine world today. The title “If wines were a game, Sicily’s reds would be most-improved player” does not really start well, but the content is better…

While the weather is still cold, keep an eye out for Nero d’Avola from Sicily.

For a very long time, Sicily was known as a place that made massive quantities of mediocre wine. When we were young, we tended to find Sicilian wines at neighborhood Italian restaurants, and we remember the reds as somewhat harsh and the whites as oxidized (and, of course, we cooked with Marsala). But that has changed dramatically in the past decade or so as a new generation of committed winemakers has focused more on quality and less on quantity.

Read more at Daily Herald

If you love tuna, this is the festival for you. Bonagia (Valderice) e Favignana in the Trapani province will be hosting a tuna festival. There will be guided tours, concerts, shows and tastings for everybody.

For more information, visit Rassegna Bonton (in Italian)

The hotel Hilton Portorosa in Furnari (ME) will host a wine tasting of Rapitala’ wines. The chef Rocco Raneri will prepare a special menu with Sicilian delicacies. The cost of the wine tasting is is 45 Euros.

For more information, please visit Hilton Portorosa

Some of Giorgio De Chirico’s artoworks will be exhibited at the Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Palermo through March 30. The title of the exhibition is “Metafisica continua” and includes “Ettore e Andromaca” and “Oreste e Pilade”. Girgio De Chirico’s father was Palermitan.

Read more about Giorgio De Chirico

Yes, you can… Not in China, but in Sicily… No comment about this news. By the way, the one in the picture is a real one!

Italians are used to buying bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to look stylish but police found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.

Police accused 15 people of building the blood red sports cars and selling them to car fanatics on a budget, most of whom knew they were buying a counterfeit classic.

Read more at Reuters.com

Sergio Cardarella gives a detailed insight of the history of the Jews in Sicily.

The saga of Jewish history has no simple chapters, and the chapter on Sicilian Jews is certainly no exception. While the histories of Galician, Indian, and Japanese Jews have been studied extensively, one of the oldest communities of the Diaspora has been generally neglected. The biggest island of the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily, has been for millennia one of the most important crossroads of the early civilizations.

Read more at The Philadelphia Jewish Voice