Our cookery season is back on track and the first course is near its end. A wonderful bunch of people that truly enjoy cooking, wine and taking in everything Sicily has to offer.

One of our stops was at the Felice Modica estate - an up and coming winery with very promising Nero d'Avola DOC wine with wonderful reviews from both Gambero Rossi and the Veronelli Guide.

The Telegraph, a well-respected UK newspaper, is featuring a wine from Noto as their Wine of the Week. The wine is the Santa Cecilia 2001, a product of the Planeta wineries. It is made entirely with Nero d'Avola. Fifty percent of the grapes come from the Dispensa vineyard in Menfi, while the other fifty percent comes from the Buonivini estate in Noto. According to The Telegraph the wine is "packed with aromatic, juicy red and black fruit with spicy hints of liquorice and cinammon".