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Sicilia en primeur 2011

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Walter Speller
Wednesday 4 May 2011
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See this Guide to our Sicilian week.

These tasting notes accompany a series of articles by Walter Speller on Sicily, Italian wine's hotspot, including Etna – should it be DOCG?, Etna – a change in the rules,, Sicilia DOC? And Brand Nero d'Avola, and Etna's endangered yeasts. There are more tasting notes in Some Etna classics.

This year's en primeur tastings in Sicily (see below for my 111 notes taken there), organised annually by Assovini Sicilia, a group of some of the best producers shaping the island's quality-wine production, focused on the 'naturalness of production'.

This 'naturalness' was a reference...