I shall describe a film from the Berlin International Film Festival, the touching “The Dinner”, written and directed by Oren Moverman and starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny, released for showing in Italian cinemas on May 18th. The script of
The high shop windows open upon onto the central Via Dante, just a few steps away from Piazza Castelnuovo Politeama. Ever since the year 2011, Claudio Conte’s Enoteca Buoni Vini is an address which is an indispensable reference point for passionate wine lovers who are
A visit to the vineyards, that’s how the first “winestop” of the day begins. We are at Baglio Assuli, the winery located in the province of Trapani, to be exact between Marsala and Mazzara del Vallo. The countryside is described by the vine rows and
Monica Larner is a professional journalists, a critic who is among the best known on an International level, the collaborator of Robert Parker and his Wine Advocate magazine for Italian wine. Profoundly informed about Sicily and its wines, she has participated in Sicilia en Primeur
It’s Sunday, and just as every Sunday true wine lovers adventure out in the search for new cellars to visit, new wines to discover. We leave Palermo significantly behind schedule due to the beginning of daylight savings time and head towards the very heart of
You don’t pass through the Terrazza Costantino Restaurant by chance. In the tiny hamlet of Sclafani Bagni in the Madonie mountains, perched on a bluff which dominates a valley which was green up until a few weeks ago and will shortly become a golden yellow, you
I receive the notice – an electrifying one – from Bocum Winebar & Mixology (Palermo) and arrives as a true bolt from the blue between delicious tapas, fabulous cocktails from Gianluca Di Giorgio, and an extraordinary spaghetti with sea urchins from Diego Battaglia. Franco Virga and Stefania
Vito Catania, a major name in Sicilian wine, has left us. An entrepreneur who was born in a small town in the province of Ragusa in Sicily’s southeast, he, with his Gulfi winery near Chiaromonte gave new force and energy to that extraordinary viticultural area
I can’t resist puns, the felicitous synthesis of two important evenings. The Hotel Villa Carlotta is an oasis of peace, style, and design towards the outskirts of the higher part of Ragusa which looks both towards the interior and Chiaramonte Gulfi and westwards towards Comiso.
The honor of concluding the cycle of tastings organized for the press during Sicilia en Primeur falls upon Anne McHale, London-based Master of Wine based. Perhaps the most prestigious occasion of all during the 14th edition of the wine event, among the most important in