The Sicily wine tours are the best cooking holidays you could live in Sicily. Cooking tours in Sicily are among the island's main attractions. Here are a few suggestions of what to eat with Sicily wines when touring this region. For those unfamiliar with Sicily, it would be a mistake not to set the stage for your experience. Sicily is a cradle of history, and a crossroad of cultures. What to get...- Unforgitable views and landscapes
- History of tradiction live around you
- The best Italian food experiences like Wine tasting and cooking courses
- Ospitality
- Feel the favors of the Volcanoes territory in a glass
- Much more...
Along the way of the tour of etna volcano and Catania, the view of many of the villages located on the slopes of the mount etna will catch your sight together with vineyards, and fruit-trees. Their vineyards produce excellent Etna d.o.c. red and white wines as well as an impressive sparkling wine. Here you can combine food and wine tasting while you are travelling across century's of history and culture.
Here what to see and different types of itinerary...- From Belpasso towards Nicolosi: Between the extended lava of the eruption of 1669. Later comes down on Pedara in order to reach the ancient Tarderia. Get down towards Tracastagni and Viagrande. One shunting line towards Aci S. Antonio, between lemons trees and the return towards north, in order to exceed the localities of Monterosso, Fleri, Sarro and stop to Zafferana Etnea.
- From Giarre towards the fraction of Macchia: After there is Milo, between vineyards and orchards. To Milo take the direction of Catania towards the village of Santa Venerina.
- From Sant'Alfio towards Piedimonte Etneo: Passes in front of two monumental chestnut trees on the way for Linguaglossa, flanked from vineyards. Here you can admire the gorges of the Alcantara, a river in the lava flows. Later we pass on Randazzo. One shunting line to Lago Gurrida, extraordinary natural phenomenon and at last to Bronte, place of the pistachio nut.
- Sightseeing in Catania: Visit of its most important monuments and to its colourful fish-market in the heart of the historical centre. You will enjoy special Catanese traditional finger-food : arancini, granite, cannoli.
- Visit a cheese lab: Discover ways of production of local cheese: let’s match cheese with wine and jams. Cerasuolo di Vittoria: is the famous wine of the province of Ragusa.
- The islands of Pantelleria and Lipari: Are famous for Moscato and Passito. Siracusa and Noto, in the eastern part of Sicily, also produce fine Moscato wines.
One of the most important aspect of Mediterranean diet is the quality of the ingredients used. Sicily, like many other areas of Italy, follows the seasons very closely. The result is that ingredients are fresh, often produced in Sicily and are tasty and fragrant. To get the best out of our Sicilian recipes you should buy in-season ingredients where possible.
Here the most known foods and wine to taste during your Sicilian journey... Sicily is renowned for its seafood. Grilled swordfish is popular. Snapper is sometimes prepared in a vinegar and sugar sauce. Cuttlefish is served in its own black sauce with pasta. Another Sicilian seafood dish made with pasta is fennel with sardines. Try seafood with whites wines as Catarratto Bianco, Inzolia, Grillo, and Damaschino. These grapes make wine that is ideally suited for a cuisine that is heavy on seafood.
Meat dishes are always popular. Best known are veal marsala, Chicken "alla marsala" can be prepared using a similar recipe and method. Veal spleen sandwiches are loaded with cholesterol, but delicious anyway. Among red wines that suits well to meat there are the Nero d'Avola, Calabrese, Perricone, Frappato. Sicilian desserts are wonderful. Cannoli are tubular crusts with ricotta and sugar filling. Cassata is a sugary cake filled with the same delicious filling. Frutta di Martorana are almond marzipan pastries shaped to resemble real fruit. Sicilian ice cream is excellent. Granita is sweetened crushed ice and flavored with lemons or strawberries. Another well known sweets are the almond pistachio cookies in Bronte, Catania
Some Tips to get better experience...- If sweets taste a little different from the ones you've had outside Italy, that's because the ricotta here is made from sheep's milk.
- The best known desert and aperitif wines are : Marsala ,Moscato, Passito di Pantelleria, and Malvasia delle Lipari. Zibibbo, Liqueurs and Grappa, though not suitable for every occasion, go well with some desserts.
- The wines have a maximum cost of about $20. A lot of wines from the Tuscany or Piedmont regions of Italy cost $40 or much, much more. Such is not the case for Sicily.
- Drink wine with food not without food.
- Only a little more than 2% of Sicilian wine carries the DOC designation. Sicily is home to over three dozen major and secondary grape varieties, with more white than red varieties.
- "Denomination of origin" is a meaningless designation unrelated to quality. Often, the system is abused to "dignify" otherwise mediocre wines.
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Travel tips for Sicily 
