Siciliana la dolce vita!

Gambino wine tasting menu

I'm back older and wiser after a long break...Perhaps not so much wiser but definitely older, last Sunday I celebrated my 40tieth! Hubby planned a secret birthday-trip-treat:)
For weeks he was showing me photos of places that could be anywhere in this world, gave me conflicting tips including: take your swim-suit, next Friday (one tip every Friday!) he said take your walking boots and fleece. I pretended that I don't care and whatever but it was a torture not to know:)))
Turned out it was Sicily:) La dolce vita and 5 happy sweet full of wonderful food, wine, desserts days! Can I please be back there? This is a message to the universe! Please hear me!

Everything we tasted was so wonderfully full of flavour, simple non-pretentious and made you want more! Wine was great, but we enjoy trying all sorts of fortified wine and here malvasia stands out for me but also passito was amazing.
Cannolo became my favourite treat of every day:) Among many other treats:) But la dolce vita is a commitment:)

Here are two shots from Gambino vineyard. Beautiful place run by a charming and committed family. Wine tasting is 4 wines but they leave bottles on the table and offer you to drink as much as you like. Wine is accompanied by a platter of local cheese, vegetables, delicious bread. And on top of that my fellow coutrywoman works there, thank you for everything Hanna! Na zdrowie! Cin cin!

Me in Gambino enjoying myself a lot:)