Help me out here please?
Am I on the right track with the Catania/Etna Region?

Think "Me**p***m**m"

[edit - changed my mind - made it too easy]

... Go google  Me**p***m**m Alan - This is what you get! Very very helpful thanks bud!

DOCG means denominazione di origine  controllata e garantita. Very few wines have that honour south of Rome and Sicily's first one is produced in the area of Ragusa.

There are two grapes involved ... and the name of the wine has a place name in it. The initials C d V

come on, I am practically giving this away now...

Jinty - according to my sources Marsala is a DOC (not a DOCG) but let me double check...

I wish I did get that!

[hence the asterisks]

On second thoughts - auction it for the fund

http://www.planeta.it/ENG/Cerasuolo_ing.pdf

Thank you everybody - Do you know that with Ronald's £20 we will have raised £91 already!!!

Not bad considering most people are still finding their feet

I would love to see more members being brave enough to post a question but I won't nag (much!)

Ronald you realise that we just will not get a moment's peace if Jinty does not get her paws on a t shirt??? Please I beg you throw one in the post to her

Now Alan and Jinty have recently done a question for the quiz and it would be fantastic if somebody new would be so kind as to become the next mini quizmaster...

Whaddya say?

Moxie

Cerasuolo is the first Sicilian DOCG. It's produced in the Ragusa province in Caltanisetta and Catania using Frappato and Calabrese grapes. It's one of the few grapes that can boast a birth certificate: in 1606 the founder of the town of Vittoria, Vittoria Colonna Enriques, gave the first 75 colonists a hectare of land on the condition that they cultivated another hectare as a vineyard. Even the name has historic origins: in the area a red bud grew spontaneously, though similar in name to "cherry" (kerasos) it was a different plant. The founder's investments yielded copius fruit, so much so that in 1808 Balsamo the monk could write: "Victoria's land produces a very valid wine that should, in my opinion, be regarded as the best of this type on the whole island. It's composed almost entirely of grossonero, calabrese and frappato grapes."

alan h's document is quite comprehensive but it was missing one bit I was really looking for - where does cerasuolo the word come from. Elicat got that right with "kerasi" which is literally cherry in greek.

So 20 goes to the fund and t-shirt to elicat which hoepfully will start a new post, tag it Abruzzo Quiz and give us the next question -  and if Jinty and/or alan h pop a symbolic amount in the fund I'll fire off two t-shirts their way as well 

I'll have to get started thinking of the next question.

Make the shirt on the large size and I'll send my husband out to do publicity for Italy mag :-)

 and the winner is...ELICAT!!! ..."chi cerca, trova!"