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    The Vine Whisperer: A Sicilian Tale of Wine and Mystery

    By Filippo Testa and Susannah Elliott

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    Filippo Testa was born and brought up in Palermo, the son of a Sicilian count. A budding musician, he was determined to follow a career as a jazz pianist until his father died and he inherited the family vineyards. Unschooled in the ways of the countryside, spurred on by the challenge of reviving what was a failing and unproductive estate, and driven by a strange but irresistible fascination for the unknown, he launched himself into a world of joy, wonder and fear that was to change his life forever. 
    Based on stories, diary entries and interviews collated by Filippo Testa and Susannah Elliott, The Vine Whisperer interweaves fact, fiction and poetry into a beautiful but spine-chilling chronicle of life in the vineyards of western Sicily.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781788032087
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    The Vine Whisperer: A Sicilian Tale of Wine and Mystery
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    Filippo Testa

    Filippo Testa has been running his family estate, the Conte Testa vineyards at Tarantola in the Sicilian Alcamo doc region, since the 1980s. Over the years he has established an organic wine and olive oil business (Gorgo del Drago), a guest house, a traditional Sicilian restaurant, a small cookery school and a 24-hour jazz radio station.

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