Wine with Leslie: I flew to Sicily to taste the quality of their grapes, here are my Sicilian wine picks

The more obvious takeaway from that trip was the quality of the native grapes, for example, Nero d’Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Catarratto, Grillo and others.

Below are three wines from Sicily, only one of which (the white) has featured before. Picture: file image

A return to Sicily this month, and why not given the little bit of sunshine recently. Thankfully we don’t get Sicily’s blistering heat, is it any wonder that there are so many varieties of granita and ice cream available in every town and on every street corner in cities like Catania and Palermo.

On a visit to Catania (near Etna) last September, when I was over judging wines for the Concours Mondial competition, I had granita more than once a day as it was always available after our meals as well as throughout the city.