Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 971 Steve Raye interviews Antonio Rallo of Sicilia DOC in this installment of Get US Market Ready With Italian Wine People on the Italian Wine Podcast. About today’s guest: Antonio Rallo was born in 1967 representing the fifth generation of a Sicilian family with 171 years of experience in quality wine. Grown up among vineyards and cellars he nurtures a great love for the territory and promotes as President of the Sicilia DOC Consortium the growth of the system with a strategic vision of Sicilian wine involving the island's winemakers. The Controlled Denomination of Origin (DOC) Sicilia was officially recognized on 22 November 2011 by a Decree issued by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry. The following year, 2012, marked the year of the foundation of Consorzio di Tutela Vini Sicilia DOC: the winegrowers, winemakers and bottlers promoting the recognition of the DOC, decided to establish the consortium, an organization that would not only give them a voice, but would concretely e