The first Sicilian wines I had in Palermo were in restaurants. I have memories of being in a place with family and they brought a bottle of Corvo Rosso. My first taste of nerello. It was a wine from the 1960’s. At one point later in time in the 1990’s I had a bottle of [...]

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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” – Federico Fellini

All film stills from Fellini’s La Città delle Donne

Thank you Mr. Ziliani for the post on the three new Italian DOCG’s. The DOCG size is now holding up, albeit briefly, at “68.”
The big question is which DOCG [...]

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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” – Federico Fellini

All film stills from Fellini’s La Città delle Donne

Thank you Mr. Ziliani for the post on the three new Italian DOCG’s. The DOCG size is now holding up, albeit briefly, at “68.”
The big question is which DOCG [...]

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in search of Marsa Allah

“Where did you go? We were worried about you!” My Aunt Vittina thought something had happened to me out in the streets of Palermo. And indeed it had. I witnessed my birth in an ancient bodega, filled with Marsala and surrounded by the midwives of Palermo. I was too invigorated [...]

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Love in the time of Catarratto

The front has been perched above the city for days now. Hot, humid, hovering. Stalled. All the while I have been locked in the time machine, trapped in another place and era, Palermo in 1971. And while I go back there to retrieve an image or a memory, this time [...]

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