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  • Soap, British trading ship and Marsala wine illustrating John Woodhouse's role in Marsala wine history
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    How a British Soap Merchant Accidentally Invented Marsala, Sicily’s Most Famous Wine

    Marsala wine gets marketed as pure Sicilian tradition. Old-world, sun-baked, passed down through generations of Sicilian winemaking families. Here’s the part that never makes it onto the label: the man who built the entire industry wasn’t Sicilian. He wasn’t even a winemaker. He was an English merchant who came to…

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  • Bottle and glass of Nero d’Avola wine beside a ghost writing on parchment in a Sicilian vineyard
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    Nero d’Avola Spent a Century Ghostwriting Other Wines

    Nero d’Avola is Sicily’s most planted red grape. Roughly 15,400 hectares of it, more than anything else on the island, by a wide margin. And for most of the 20th century, if you drank it, there’s a good chance you had no idea. It wasn’t hiding in some obscure corner…

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