Some People Stay

In Sicily, for generations, the more common choice was another one: leaving. Leaving behind the land of one’s grandparents, the fragmented plots, the toil of a trade that seemed to have no future. Going elsewhere to find what the countryside, alone, could no longer guarantee. In Camporeale, twenty-five years ago, a group of farmers decided […]

The Almond Tree Older Than All of Us

There’s a tree, in the Sicani Mountains, that as of a few days ago holds a title no other almond tree in the world can claim: it is the largest living almond tree documented so far. When the news reached us, Massimiliano and Gaspare didn’t hesitate — they went up to Castronovo di Sicilia to […]

There is a wine that still tastes of secret.

It rarely happens, in a winery, that a wine is born twice. The first time is when the grape touches the stone for the first time, when the roots find their depth in the clayey soil of a district that not everyone knows — Curbici, a name that sounds ancient, almost forgotten, like all the […]