For generations, Americans have been dependable consumers of Italian wines. From the straw-covered bottles of Chianti to the super reds of Tuscany, Italian wines have been on restaurant lists and wine shop shelves for as long as most of us can remember.
But the wines of Sicily have been missing. Indeed, for years that Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy’s mainland has been best known by Americans not for its wine, but for its mafia and its still-active volcano, Mount Etna.
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It may take a mindshift to think of magnificent Greek ruins in Italy but the Greeks were everywhere a long time before the Romans made something of themselves, and the ancient cities of Akragas and Selinunte on the southern coast of Sicily are equally as dramatic and fascinating as Rome’s Parthenon.
