VITA UVA

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Curated monthly wine club specializing in minimal intervention wines with tastings held in Seattle’s International District

Wine Reviews

NERO D’AVOLA: THE MOST IMPORTANT RED WINE GRAPE IN SICILY

You may know Nero D’avola as the grape for wine snobs on a budget. You may remember it as a grape included in pleasant but boring blends if you drank a lot of wine before the turn of the century, or you might never have heard of Nero D’avola.

SICILY IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO PRODUCE WINE AND HERE'S WHY

It doesn’t take more than a look at the island’s arid, warm climate, hills and mountains, and young volcanic soil to understand that Sicily is the perfect place to produce wine. It’s no surprise that Sicily is Italy’s leading wine-producing region.