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Your next holiday: Wine tasting in Sicily

So you love Italian wine - so much, you can taste it in your sleep. This year, you’d like to do something different, something adventurous, something daring. This year, you want to go where the real action is, to the source, where all this beautiful nectar of the gods comes from.

So Sicily, here you come!

Here are some useful tips to help you on your way.

1) With its combination of Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Greek influences, Sicily is a truly unique cultural city that will keep you coming back again and again. You can look forward to touring a place that has had wine running through its veins since the 2nd millennium.

2) Due to its varied landscape, you can expect to find an equally varied range of wines for your palate – from the old to the new – from the solid strong tasting wines to the fresher fruitier more modern wines.

3) Not only is there the truly succulent wine for you to look forward to, but there’s also the perfect food to go with it. So if you’re a bit of a food connoisseur as well as an Italian wine lover, you’ll be getting a sumptuous 2 for the price of 1.

4) Talk to the locals. There may be things they know about wine that your run-of-the-mill tour guide may not know. They might recommend less-popular wines that taste absolutely divine. Talk to the elders in particular as they might have beautiful heart-warming stories about growing up in such a culture.

5) Don’t be afraid to go off the beaten path a bit – again, ask the locals - look for wine tours that are less popular as they may very well prove to be surprisingly more informative, intimate and enjoyable.

So where next? Tuscany? Milan?