I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Frandy Savino and Bill Nesto on the show today they are the co-authors of

the world of Sicilian wine as well as Quiante Classical a search for Tuscany's noblest wine.

Nice to see you both.

Hi, Lefee.

It's a pleasure.

I think one of the things that's really appealing about both of your books

is how much depth they get into about the specific regions.

In one case, the first book was about Sicily and the other one is about the Kianti area and specifically comparing that to

Kianti Classical in Tuscany.

So why don't we start with the Sicilian book and how you got involved and decided

this was something you wanted to do?

I had an assignment to write an article about Sicily for Sante magazine.

It's a restaurant wine magazine and this was I think in 2008.

So we went together and this was for three weeks and we went around the whole

islands and it was an incredible adventure. In fact, the year before, Levy, we had spent, I think, probably two weeks in Greece and in advance of that trip.

I re-read Homer's Odyssey.

So when we went to Sicily, of course I was reminded of the passages in Homer's

Odyssey and how he characterized the native people of Sicily who populated Mount Aetna as a lawless tribe that grew nothing and planted nothing

and just lived off of the wild fertility of their land.

And what Bill and I experienced in those several weeks

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