Francesca Ciancio’s travel diary

With a name like this, you can’t help but think of Sicily. But – unlike at the home of the fictional character by the same name – instead of a terrace overlooking the sea of Vigata (that everyone knows does not exist), there is a winery […]

When you say “home and work”. At Di Prima, what was once the family home – today is the tasting room – just a few metres from the cellar and overlooking Lake Arancio and some of their vineyards. The family was there well before the construction […]

Giovanni and Ida Maggio were youths when they set up Cantina Monte Olimpo. It was 1992 and they were among the first to believe in Sicily, in non-native grapes, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah. Today, their labels speak half Sicilian, half foreign. In fact, several […]

This company in Sambuca has received commercial and technological know-how from its parent company Mezzacorona, in the Trentino region. Aside from that, Feudo Arancio is entirely Sicilian. It is Sicilian in the steady growth of the vineyards planted with native grapes, in the single variety labels […]

Have you ever gone for a stroll in a field of prickly pears? The effect is something between a western film and a prehistoric wood. In Santa Margherita di Belice the area dedicated to this fruit is not very widespread – approximately three hundred hectares – […]

For the La Rocca family , life is divided into a pre-earthquake and a post-earthquake period. The original mill disappeared under the rubble, in 1968, as did most of the town of Montevago. What a strange foreboding in the name of this community that still preserves […]

Every day, winter or summer, Vittorio’s children send greetings via Instagram: sometimes a stretch of Blue Flag sea, sometimes a sea lily on the sand dunes close to the restaurant, other times the fish just delivered from nearby Porto Palo or from Sciacca. The entire world […]

Lake Arancio is an unusual piece in the landscape of freshwater Sicily. It is an artificial basin built in the late ’40s of the previous century. More than 30 million cubic meters of water cover what remains of Fort Mazzallakkar, built by the Arabs in 830 […]

In these areas there are no worries, or better yet, the only apprehensions regard nature’s behavior. And so, the cheesemaker who produces Vastedda del Belice cannot ask the sheep to produce more milk. And he cannot stir the curdled milk quicker in the pot because sheep’s […]

Menfi is nostalgia for Africa without ever having been to Africa. You can distinguish it by the light, by a temperature of 40 C without a sticky sensation, by the very tall agaves, by the sea that has nothing in front of it. By Marilena Barbera […]