This is the second in the series of articles by Walter Speller on Sicily, Italian wine's hotspot, that we are publishing all this week. Following on from Etna – should it be DOCG? is Sicilia DOC? And Brand Nero d'Avola, and Etna's endangered yeasts, complemented by tasting notes in Sicilia en primeur 2011 and Some Etna classics.
As I observed in Etna – should it be DOCG?, the quality of Etna wines is nowadays generally so high that the region is a prime candidate for promotion to DOCG level. However, the original, very loosely formulated 1968 DOC...