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49 venues, told one by one
Vigna Nica
Seven hectares of Mamertino facing the Aeolian Islands, and no two vintages alike.
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Terre di Gratia
In 1934 a sharecropper bought the estate he had worked on. The winery is still there, at Camporeale: ten organic hectares on a single slope of the Bel…
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Girolamo Russo
Etna's northern flank, between 650 and 780 metres: vines mostly over a hundred years old, worked by hand, and a different wine for every contrada — be…
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Palmento Costanzo
Eighteen hectares on Etna's northern flank, where the dry stone walls are called custeri and the oldest vines are a hundred and twenty years old — and…
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Passopisciaro (Vini Franchetti)
A farmstead at a thousand metres on Etna's northern slope, and five wines each carrying the initial of its own contrada — because up there the vineyar…
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Catania Center B&B
Four rooms on the first floor of a palace in the old town, under an eighteenth-century vault frescoed by the painters of Catania's baroque.
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Poggio di Bortolone
Seven generations of the Cosenza family on an estate bought from the Bourbons, an 1795 cellar with its oil mill and water mill, and two streams that m…
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Terre di Entella
In a village where Albanian is still spoken and mass is still said in the Greek rite, one family has worked the land for four generations: ancient whe…
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La Casa del Poeta
Below Enna lies the lake where, in the old story, Proserpina was gathering flowers when the earth opened. A few kilometres from there a nineteenth-cen…
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Casa Vinicola Fazio
At Fulgatore, in the heart of the Erice DOC: four generations, Europe's most vine-planted province, and six different ways to spend half a day there.
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Cambria Vini
Twenty-five hectares on the hills of Furnari, below the sanctuary of Tindari, with the Aeolian Islands on the horizon. Five generations since 1864, an…
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Agriturismo Le Campanelle
A feudal farmhouse among centuries-old olive trees, above the sea between Cefalù and the Madonie — and on the ground floor, once, the village oil mill…
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Quignones - Casa Vinicola
In the countryside of Licata, a family estate since the mid-nineteenth century: wine, olive oil and preserves. And a welcome for two to eight people, …
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Gambino Vini
On the north-eastern slope of Etna, at eight hundred metres, a winery that could not grow because it stands inside the Park — so they dug it eleven me…
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Agata B&B
In the old town of Lipari, five minutes on foot from the harbour: a terrace for every room, and nobody organising your day.
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Ristorante da Filippino
On Lipari's town-hall square since 1910, beside the castle: fish landed daily, walls covered in painted ceramic plates, and the cooking of a Buon Rico…
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Ristorante Sangre Rojo
Ten kilometres above the harbour of Lipari, where the island empties out: terraces over open sea, and whatever the boats brought in that day.
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Tenuta di Castellaro
Two vineyards on an emerged volcano: one at three hundred and fifty metres facing Salina, the other at eighty where the rows almost touch the water. A…
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Cantine Colosi
Ten terraced hectares between Capo Faro and Porri, and three generations sharing one name.
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Agriturismo Parco Vecchio
The name comes from a Norman king's hunting park, nine centuries ago. Today it is home to a family who cook what they grow, at the foot of a wood wher…
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Azienda Agricola Millami
A country winery in Marsala: the walls where his grandfather made wine until the 1990s, reopened by his grandson after thirty silent years.
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Cantine Mothia
A winery in Marsala, between the old town and the Stagnone lagoon, named after the ancient Phoenician colony on the island just offshore.
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Le Lumie
A family summer house on a hill above Marsala, turned into a restaurant in 2009. From the terrace you can see the Stagnone lagoon and the Egadi island…
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Baglio Carcilupo
A stone farmhouse out in the countryside of Mezzojuso, its courtyard lit at night and the Sicani mountains on the horizon. They ask one thing of those…
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Cantine Iuppa
Ten hectares across four districts of Milo — the only village on Etna where Bianco Superiore may be made — and a nineteenth-century palmento that is n…
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Cantina Frasca
Half a hectare in contrada Carcicera since the 1950s, and those same vines still make the wine that carries the grandfather's name. Everything else — …
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Casa Talia
Eight rooms and two houses around three gardens, facing Modica Alta: two Milanese architects who chose to stay.
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Manfredomus
In 1364 Manfredi Chiaramonte was granted these lands and decided to build a castle on them. Manfredomus is a few steps away: about a hundred metres fr…
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Musmelia Rooms
Six rooms on the main square of Mussomeli, at 765 metres in the heart of Sicily, with the Manfredonico Castle visible from the road and breakfast made…
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Caffè Sicilia
On Noto's corso since 1892, now in its fourth generation: almond granita made with the Romana cultivar, and a blood-orange preserve with wild fennel a…
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Feudo Maccari
Between Noto and Pachino, facing the Vendicari reserve: sixty hectares of vineyard assembled field by field, and a winery that welcomes by appointment…
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Saline Culcasi
Four generations of salt workers in Nubia, inside the WWF reserve
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Enosteria Sicula
Halfway between a wine bar and an osteria, a few steps from the Politeama: Sicilian cooking that changes with the seasons, and a cellar built on the i…
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Osteria dei Vespri
On a small square in the Kalsa, on the ground floor of the palace of «The Leopard»: the cooking of two brothers between Palermo and the north, and a c…
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Daphnae House
Palma di Montechiaro never grew: it was invented twice — in 1637 by twin brothers of the Tomasi family, and three centuries later by one of their desc…
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Tenuta Borgia
A farm estate with ancient dammusi
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Masseria Rossella
It carries the name of the roses that have always flowered in this land. Before it lie the Ficuzza woods and Rocca Busambra; within, a courtyard where…
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Agriturismo Bannata
A farmhouse from 1715 where the rooms are the old working spaces: the henhouse, the donkey stable, the labourers' room. Each carries the name of someo…
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Calabretta
Four generations on the northern slope of Etna, between five hundred and fifty and nine hundred metres. The vines are bush-trained on terraces held up…
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Terrazze dell'Etna
Forty hectares on Etna's north-western flank, inside the Park: stone terraces recovered one by one from abandoned fields, and a winery where you can s…
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Azienda Agricola Biologica Miceli & Sensat
Forty-eight thousand olive trees hand-grafted onto wild Sicilian rootstock, on the shores of Lake Garcia. Among the grafted varieties are Picual and A…
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Cantine Di Giovanna
A family winery on the slopes of Monte Genuardo, inside a nature reserve: you taste the wine where it was born, over eight hundred metres up.
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Arcaloro Resort
A baronial house on the hills above Sant'Angelo di Brolo, with a small church inside the grounds and the sea seven kilometres away. From the terraces …
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Agriturismo Torre Tabia
A fifteenth-century watchtower that became a farm, then an olive mill, then a ruin — and today a house that takes guests.
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La Tavernetta Uno Da Simone
On via Cavour, behind the cathedral: a trattoria that has been in Ortigia since 2010, on a street where almost everything else has changed three times…
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Hotel San Michele
Twenty-one rooms in the old centre of Trapani, on the street that carries the name of San Michele: stone arches, a quiet patio, and a breakfast made w…
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Baglio Occhipinti
A restored family baglio in the countryside between Vittoria and the Iblei: stone, olive trees, a walled kitchen garden — and the feeling of having ar…
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Tenuta Bastonaca
An 18th-century palmento in contrada Bastonaca, fifteen hectares of bush vines and not a drop of irrigation, a thousand Carolea olive trees and a thou…
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Tenuta Santo Spirito
In the countryside of Vittoria: an abandoned estate rebuilt over fifteen years, organic Cerasuolo Classico DOCG, and from September the villa can be r…
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