Wine Pairing: Moscato di Siracusa DOC Moscato di Siracusa DOC is the smallest and strangest of the historic Sicilian denominations. It was recognised in 1973, produced almost nothing for the following three decades, and came within one retirement of disappearing from the register altogether. Today it covers a handful of hectares around the city of Siracusa and a very small number of bottles a year. Almost nobody outside eastern Sicily has tasted it, and that is precisely what

Wine Pairing: Moscato di Noto DOC Moscato di Noto DOC is the sweet white of the far southeastern corner of Sicily, made from Moscato bianco on the pale limestone hills behind the baroque town of Noto. It is one of the oldest continuously worked Moscato zones on the island and one of the least exported, which is why most drinkers meet it for the first time in a Sicilian pasticceria rather than in a shop at home. The denomination covers four genuinely different styles, not a si

Wine Pairing: Marsala DOC Marsala DOC is Italy's great fortified wine and the most misunderstood bottle in the Sicilian cellar. Two centuries of industrial production, sweetened cooking versions and supermarket bottles sold for the price of a sandwich have hidden the fact that real Marsala, aged for years in cask and made without shortcuts, belongs in the same conversation as Sherry and Madeira. The denomination covers the province of Trapani, at the western tip of Sicily, ar