April 22

It's Wednesday. Pasta or Pizza night. Keep the price down night. The most popular inexpensive red wine in the store is I Rustici Nero d'Avola from Sicily for $6.99 a bottle.

Nero d'Avola is the name of the grape native to Sicily. It produces an easy drinking red wine that has just enough warm fruit flavors to compliment red sauce. What are warm fruit flavors? I don't know but it sounds like good wine geek speak. I do know that it is easy to enjoy with any southern Italian dish.

Did you know that mint is the herb of Sicily? Or that the eggplants of Sicily are white and shaped like an egg, hence the name eggplant? There are lots of other cool things about Sicily that I will share another time.

Ciao