Sicilian & Italian Wine Guide

Basic Wine Guide These are some wines from Italy. This list is here strictly as a guide, so that if you go to a restaurant and/or wine store and want an Italian wine, you can pick it out by name and know something about it before hand.  Only those which are hyperlinked are those which we have tried, and even then, we do not make recommendations, only comments, you try these wines at your own risk.  Also, the APPROXIMATE cost per bottle is retail NOT what you will find in a restaurant, a restaurant will not double, but actually triple the price of a bottle of wine.  So a $45 bottle of wine that is "unbelieveable" to you when you taste it, is actually something you can get for $12-15 in your local liquor store.  How do you avoid this?  You go to restaurants where you bring your own bottle of wine.  Just because they don't have a liquor license does not mean that the food is not good, it may be less convenient, but not only is it cheaper, but its better to bring your own bottle rather than chose from a list that is overpriced and not very good.  ALso, you will notice that most of these wines are roughly in the $10 price range. Personally (and this is strictly a personal statement and preference) I do not think you have to spend more than $25 for a good bottle of wine, retail.  I have had chianti classico (my favorite) from the $60 bottles and did not care for them.  The wine should be about the food, not the food about the wine. So get a bottle of wine that will compliment the food and it should not be more than $25-50, tops. Its NOT a matter of being frugal, its a matter of being sensible, its just not worth it, save the money for the food and the tip.

White wine should be drank in the year it is vinted.  So if it is the year 2002, you should be drinking white wine from the year 2001.

Sicilian Wines

Colosi

Terrale

Corvo Red

Corvo White

Regaleali

Italian Wines

Terrilogio	Casarsa	Bollini	Dardano	Opici
Rocca Bernarda	La Colombaia	Citra Red	Citra White	Lungarotti
Nobile	Villa Puccini	Ciro	Umberto Cesari	Santa Cristina
Taurino	Villa Girardi	Princeipessa Gavia	Vitiano	Piovano
Conti Contini	Cantele	Canaletto	Primitivo Salento	Villa Alessiao
Linardi Ciro	Ca Grande	Due Torri Red	Due Torri White	Cielo
San Giuseppe Red	San Giuseppe White	Torrediluna	San Martino	Kris

Italian Magnum Bottles of Red Wine

Le Rocche

Villa Diana

Chianti & Wines From Tuscany

Bonacchi	Cecchi	Castello di Querceto	Montalcino	Campobello
Tiziano	Colli Aretini	Spalletti	Fattoria Sonnino	Gabbiano
		Rocca delle Macie	Rocca delle Macie

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