Sicily by the Sea: Marsala

Part IV of my Sicily series, at the edge of Italy in some of its most surprising vineyards

Around about 1880, the young Carmelo Caffaro left Sicily’s western region, the Agrigento. He either was already with my namesake, Rachela Oliva, or met her across the Atlantic, in New York. Who knows. Records about Rachela don’t exist or I haven’t found them; women didn’t have citizenship in Italy until 1948 and prior to that, they are poorly documented…