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March 19, 2021

Welcome to Sicily Wine & Dine

Welcome to Sicily Wine & Dine blog. Follow the path of Sicilian fine wines and foods. My name is Johanna and lived here since…

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Spring has arrived to Sicily and so also spring mo

Spring has arrived to Sicily and so also spring mood with brut and strawberries. 🥂☀️🍓
Here a 50 month Cuvee Brut from the north side of Etna from the well known winery Terrazze dell'Etna. Also a popular winery clients visited during my years in tourism.
100% Chardonnay grapes, made by Metodo Classico. I like specially they do dégorgement by hand.
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🍇 Winery: Terrazze dell'Etna
🥂Wine: Cuvee Brut 2015
Tangerine, grapefruit, kiwi, stone, biscuit.
Dry, high acidity, medium+ body, long finish. Balanced. Persistant pearlage.
50 months Metodo Classico.
Very good! 👌
@terrazzedelletna
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An Etna natural wine keeping company while WSET 3

An Etna natural wine keeping company while WSET 3 is on the go. 🍃🍷
A blend of Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio. I like this Etna blend more as Cappuccio gives a more refined and elegant touch comparing to wines with only Mascalese grape. Cappuccio is not easy to grow as it calls diseases easily.
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🍇Winery: Vino di Anna
🍷Wine: Rosso 2014
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Young cherry, plum, blueberry, earthy, pepper. Day after even hint of raspberry.
Dry, medium acidity, medium bodied, medium tannin, medium finish.
🍃 Natural.
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Vino di Anna winery is located in the heart of Etna wine produce area, Solicchiata, north of Etna.
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With natural wines I usually find them good to drink after couple of hours, or sometimes even the day after opening the bottle.
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My nisch is organic wines, and usually a Sicilian

My nisch is organic wines, and usually a Sicilian Nero D'Avola in the glass. 🍃🍷
But lately much Perricone has sneaked in. An indigenous Sicilian grape getting a nice up swing in the market.
Perricone is also known as Pignatello.
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Here with:
🍇Winery: Feudo Montoni
🍷Wine: Perricone del Core 2019
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Dark fruit, plum, leather, pepper.
Dry, medium acidity, medium tannins, full bodied, long finish. Balanced.
Decanter +30 minutes.
🍃 Organic.
This wine had pleasant tannins and it is obvious the winery let the tannins mature before harvest to avoid a classical Sicilian error where some harvest too early and gives a bit sour side taste in the wine.
The winery is located in the central part of Sicily.
@feudo_montoni_fabio_sireci
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Being a Sommelier is not about flashy wines and "I

Being a Sommelier is not about flashy wines and "I know it all". The snob part of the wine world I do not like. 🍇
Being a good Sommelier is the capacity to taste any wines, and ability to distinguish a good wine from a less good wine no matter from labels and appellations. 🥂🍷
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Cabernet Sauvignon with French origins but one of

Cabernet Sauvignon with French origins but one of the most grown grapes in the world, has also found a habitat in the Sicilian geography. More precisely in the Alcantara Valley north of Etna. 🌋🍇
A very nutrient rich soil, rich in water, generous sun, mist and windy, shortly said with valley growing conditions.
Found this Cabernet Sauvignon made by @alcantara_winery
It is not an organic nor biodynamic winery, but uses organic methods defending vineyards with copper and sulfur as allowed in organic. This is quite easy choice in Sicily as the island never really been industrialized.
It is an IGP wine. Some may look down at IGP, but that is a huge mistake regarding Sicilian wines. Many producers choose not to use DOC as the licenses are very expensive. By personal experiences I find more quality wines amongst IGP than DOC. Just create your own experience.
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🍇 Winery: Al-Cantara
🍷 Wine: Cappiddazzu Paga Tuttu 2015
Black fruits, fresh red cherry, smoke, vanilla, pepper.
Dry, medium acidity, medium/ full bodied, pleasant tannins, long finish. Complex. Balanced.
Very good wine! Decanter for atleast 30 minutes.
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The name of the wine is from a Sicilian comedy.
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Wine life. Lifestyle. . . #winetime #winelife #win

Wine life. Lifestyle.
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#winetime #winelife #winter #sunset #wines #sicily #sicilia #future #wine #sommelier #sunset #champagne #domperignon #optimistic #life #lifestyle #luxury #ilovewine #winepassion #instawine #winestagram #sicilywinedine #winewriter

A Viking in Sicily trying to create a natural habi

A Viking in Sicily trying to create a natural habitat; 🥂 and 🍝 in the snow ❄🥂🌋
One year ago I wrote that 2020 was one of the best years in my life. Well, 2021 topped that by far! I hope 2022 will be as intuition is telling me.
Life moving 100% to 5D and the rest I am leaving behind.
Thank you 2021 for everything. It has been much work, but hopefully 2022 moves in same speed. Lots of selfwork, get rid of fears, and get shit done in the futuristic "new entrepreneurial" way. Lockdown is and has been a true blessing! Gave plenty of time to grab things that truly matters and get rid of crap.

Wish you all a wonderful 2022! 🧡🥂
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Perricone mania! 🍷🍇 When finding 100% Perric

Perricone mania! 🍷🍇 When finding 100% Perricone, I grab the bottle right away. It is a low cultivated indigenous Sicilian grape most common on the west side of the island, and usually used in blends.
Some wineries do produce pure Perricone wines today and becoming better quality lately. It was hit hard by phylloxera and dissapeared for a while, just to making a come back again.
During holiday's tried two of them, one conventional and one organic.
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On the left side:
🍇Winery: Tenute Orestiadi
🍷Wine: Collezione l'Artista Perricone 1987
Cherry, cassis, plum, coffee, raisin, vanilla. Dry, low acidity, medium bodied, long finish. Silky on palate.
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On the right side:
🍇Winery: Valdibella
🍷Wine: Acamante 2015
Blueberry, boysenberry, smoke, earthy.
Dry/ semidry, medium acidity, medium bodied, medium finish. Better the day after corking which is quite usual with organic and natural wines.
Organic 🍃
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Both very different wines even if same grape because Tenute Orestiadis is grown by Trapani area and Valdibella is east of Palermo. Soil, temperature, mountains and sea makes the difference.
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Planning, snacksing and wining with a Sicilian org

Planning, snacksing and wining with a Sicilian organic Nero D'Avola from winery @lamorescavini 🍷🍃
Dark and earthy just as I like it. This wine changes much from opening to after one hour, so decanter well.
🍇Winery: Lamoresca
🍷Wine: Nero D'Avola Rosso 2019
Red fruit, cassis, earthy, coffee, bit vanilla in the end.
Dry, mediumhigh acidity, medium bodied, medium finish.
🍃 Organic.
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This winter is all about to finish everything lock

This winter is all about to finish everything lockdown's and new restrictions stopped. 🍷🥂
So happy to be able to finish WSET online in english from home including samples sent to be able to attend classes correctly.
@accademiavino
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Sicilian September is just work and school basical

Sicilian September is just work and school basically. But in good company from Terrazze Dell'Etna with their Cuvée Brut made of 100% Chardonnay. A french grape suiting well on Sicilian soil. 🌋🥂
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Amazing thing is the persistent pearlage as my champagne storage cork flew out the open window when filling up, and my plan was not to enjoy a whole bottle. So I just put a metal teaspoon on the bottle opening... and next day it was still smooth and bubbly like never opened.👌
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🍇 Winery: @terrazzedelletna
🥂 Wine: Cuvée Brut 2016 Metodo Classico
Aromas of tangerine, passion fruit, stone, salvia, hint of biscuit.
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When I worked in the travelindustry, hundreds of guests passed this winery in seven years. I manage to visit just once 😔 but hopefully going soon. ☀️🤗
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Finally some rain in Sicily after a long superhot

Finally some rain in Sicily after a long superhot and humid summer, mixed with eruptions and Sahara sand clouds. A great occasion to pop a natural Etna white wine from: @emilio_sciacca_etna_wine 🌋🥂
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The color is amazing! Reminds me of sunsets in Marsala those hot summer nights just waiting for the temperatures to drop some and the evening breeze to come in.
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🍇 Winery: Emilio Sciacca
🥂 Wine: Biancopiglio 2019
Grapes: a nice blend of Carricante, Catarratto (both famous Etna grapes), Grecanico dorato and Coda di Volpe (means fox tail. Kinda cool name).
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Aromas of orange, apricot, stone and hint of grapefruit. Balanced, complex, medium acidity, long finish.
But like natural wines are, tomorrow the aromas has changed and will taste again.
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More of a red wine and bubbles sipper, but this superstrange summer weather have bought more white wines 'cause even a chilled Frappato was too much in +49 °C. So thanks to the weather discovered more whites. 👏👏👏
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Sunday bubbles Sicilian winelife style. 🥂🌋

Sunday bubbles Sicilian winelife style. 🥂🌋
In my hammock by some small Etna road "I-don't-know-where" with one of my favourite Sicilian brut from Destro winery.
It is also Pas Dose, or as they say in Italian "Dosaggio Zero", this means "no sugar added". It is very common in all bubbles making where extra sugar is added in the making.
I love Pas Dose because it gives a more pure taste of the product.
Destro I discovered some years ago and is still on my top list. Sicily has many brut's and still has much work to do, but quality in general is increasing every year. The island is on a good road. 👌🥂
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🍇 Winery: @azienda_agricola_destro
🥂 Wine: Saxanigra 2014 Etna D.O.C Dosaggio Zero, Metodo Classico.
Early citrus aromas, passion fruit, stone, biscuit.
Made of 100% Nerello Mascalese.
Nice long pearlage.
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Saxanigra means "black stone" in Sicilian which refers to lavastone.
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What life is about for me; the five senses, the se

What life is about for me; the five senses, the seven chacras, the soul, intelligent conversations, testing limits, constant selfwork, experiences, loins keeping parts together... and share it with people who embraces the same.
The rest other's can keep.
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Dare to say this is one of the best Sicilian Catar

Dare to say this is one of the best Sicilian Catarratto I've had. 🥂👌
Slow fermentation in barrique gives a nice complex white wine with tropical flavors and honey. The color is like a Sicilian sunset in August, intense yellow.
To be served bit warmer, + 14°C.
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🍇 Winery: Fazio Wines
🥂 Wine: Trenta-Salmi 2016
100% Catarratto
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