Since most of you enjoyed my posts from Italy, especially Sicily, I decided to show you one more amazing day! This was a fabulous day at Tasca d' Almerita Winery, very close to Palermo. It is literally in the middle of nowhere, but once you're there...you are blown away with this sight.
The web site of the Winery is here

Once we were there our tour of the Winery begun. On the website you can see all kinds of wine they produce, and I got to taste a few one of them with the meal we had and let me tell you...they were exquisite. In the next two photos you can see what the cellars look like and it's quite a sight. I was proud to hear that some barrels are from Slavonian oak (northern part of Croatia).





After the tour, we proceeded to a small patio where we tried 2 white wines and some finger foods.





The lunch was incredible. Everything was served family style. There was an appetizer, lots of little antipasti, two types of pasta - traditional pasta alla Norma (with fresh sheep ricotta and eggplant) and the other with fennel, breadcrumbs, and sardines. Ah, I thought I was in heaven until this came to the table....



Holy Cannoli - as Stacey would say!

Those were truly THE best Cannoli....ever ever ever! The crust was super thin and crispy, and the filling was just sheep ricotta with some citrus zest. Oh boy. Ohhhhhh boy! Stacey and I wrote in their guestbook that it was our best Sicilian experience...and of course, the best cannoli! So if you ever wish to have a real Cannoli, go to Regaleali!

We also went to this cooking school close to the winery, where this older landy - Anna Tasca Lanza has cooking lessons and that is a part of James Beard Workshop. She was a good friend of Julia Child which is amazing!

This is a copy of her book that you can also get in the States:




On our way back we saw a pretty funny sight, I absolutely loved it! Don't you agree? I don't think I have to add anything to it.



And the very last stop was the store where we got some amazing extra virgin olive oil of theirs that is as good the one from our olives! And please look at how their wine tanks look like! How unique, I loved it!



So this is it! Hope you had fun with this last bit of my Sicilian adventure!