At this year's Sicilia En Primeur 2010 event, of which more later, featuring the wines of 65 Sicilian producers grouped together under the Assovini Sicilia banner and chaired by Diego Planeta from the eponymous Planeta estate, it was proposed that the entire island should be given DOC status.
The initiative, the brainchild of Professor Attilio Scienza, the person allegedly responsible for introducing the Müller-Thurgau grape to Sicily, is not without controversy, as the current 20 DOCs would appear on the label in only a subsidiary and voluntary fashion. The plan also recommends the additional construction of two DOCGs – Pantelleria...