Top 100 wines of Sicily

Discover the top 100 best wines of Sicily as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Sicily and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Sicily

Major qualitative renewal. Sunny, expressive reds: fleshy, spicy Nero d'Avola (black cherry, blackberry, liquorice), fine, mineral Nerello Mascalese on Etna (recalls Pinot Noir), light, crisp Frappato in Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG. Lively, saline whites: Catarratto, fat, iodised Grillo, taut Carricante, floral Inzolia. Amber, walnutty fortified Marsala.

107,000 Mediterranean ha, volcanic soils in the east. Sun wines, regained elegance and freshness.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Sicily

wines from the region of Sicily go well with generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or beef such as recipes of chicken tikka massala, express cherry clafoutis or tanjia.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Sicily

On the nose in the region of Sicily often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or citrus and sometimes also flavors of smoke, earthy or blackberry. In the mouth in the region of Sicily is a powerful.