Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

by Robert V. Camuto

Book Overview

His book takes wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off its legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact.

Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily's emerging wine scene. What he discovered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803239955
• ISBN13: 9780803239951
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"