Ex-Mafia land produces prize-winning Italian wines
Ex-Mafia land produces prize-winning Italian wines
Mar 26, 2012 6
(AP) — A new wave of Sicilian winemakers are making an offer you can't refuse.
This isn't the old-fashioned mob piling the pressure on local farmers. These are new economic cooperatives making prize-winning wines from Italian vineyards cultivated on land once held by the Mafia.
Wines from the Centopassi vineyards — on display at the Vinitaly wine fair that runs through Thursday in Verona — are the result of a €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) European Union-Italian project to integrate ex-Mafiosi property in the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campagna back into the legal economy.
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