100% Zibibbo. Featured on the label of both De Bartoli passitos, the word Bukkuram is key to understanding both wines. It is Arabic for "father of the vineyard" and was the original name of this historical district on the island of Pantelleria to which North African settlers brought Zibibbo (aka...

100% Grillo. The Grillo comes from 9 hectares of 21-year-old estate vines planted on the limestone-rich, sandy loam soils and yielding 36 hl/ha in Samperi (Marsala). The organically farmed fruit is hand-harvested, destemmed, gently pressed and then macerated with skins for approximately 24 hours....

100% Parpato, facing north at 80m above sea level.  The vines are planted ad alberello (bush vines) and are 40 years old.  Harvest was on August 31st, 2019 at yields of 4,500kg/ha (roughly 31 hl/ha).  Fermentation was spontaneous in stainless steel. One part of the harvest was crushed and destemmed...

100% Zibibbo. De Bartoli was the first to bottle a dry-fermented Zibibbo on the island of Pantelleria, where the hot climate and history bred a tradition of sweet, dried-grape-based wine. Marco began with the latter in the 1980's, acquiring a 3-hectare plot of Zibibbo vines planted in 1957 on north...

100% Grillo. The Superiore 1987 is the top of the 3-wine line of Marsalas that starts with the La Miccia 5-Year and continues with the 10-Year Riserva. It is essentially a longer-aged, more oxidatively aged version of the 10-Year. As with all of De Bartoli's Marsala-style wines, the only grape used...

100% Nero d’Avola. Each year, Arianna uses the same few rows of Nero d'Avola in hdr Fosso di Lupo vineyard for perfect, healthy Nero d'Avola clusters to sun-dry for 15 days for her passito-style wine. The organically farmed, hand-harvested fruit is then destemmed, crushed and fermented with...

90% Nerello Mascalese/10% other. Pirrera is a half-hectare parcel at 850 meters on the north side of Mt. Etna--its name is a reference to its rocky nature (stones abound thanks to the quarrying of a 1614 lava flow). Eduardo acquired it as a long-abandoned vineyard and rehabilitated it. The vines...

100% Pignatello. De Bartoli makes only one red wine. Initially, Marco made it from Merlot and Cabernet, commonly planted international varieties which swept Sicily in the 1980's; his doctor recommended he drink red for his health et voilà. But in keeping with his and the family's commitment to all...

Two sisters, Clara and Anna Maria Sala, own this organic farm in Mazara del Vallo, comprising of 115 hectares and surrounded by a bird sanctuary. The property was a split-off from the old Cantine Pellegrino and is now all women-owned. Grapes for this 100% Grillo are grown in a single-hectare parcel...

50% Zibibbo/50% Grillo. This dry white combines Grillo from De Bartoli vines in Samperi (Marsala) and Zibibbo from their vines on the island of Pantelleria. The Grillo vines are about 20 years old and single-Guyot-grown on the limestone-rich sandy loam and flat land typical of the area with a yield...

70% Frappato/30% Nero d'Avola. The two varietals are native to Sicily and are grown on red sand soils over limestone rock, with vines averaging 15 years old on four different sites. The vines are organically farmed and hand-harvested. The fruit is mainly destemmed (4% stem inclusion in the upcoming...

100% Grillo. Vecchio Samperi was Marco De Bartoli’s first wine, first commercially released in 1980. It was his homage to the oldest form of marsala wine. Called stravecchio, this original style was made by the perpetuo method, in other words a solera system. and without fortification (a technique...

100% Grillo. The Grillo comes from 9 hectares of 20-to-30-year-old estate vines planted on the limestone-rich, sandy loam soils of the Samperi contrada or zone in Marsala; the grapes for the Vignaverde  or "green vine" are picked earlier than for any other De Bartoli white, generally in mid-August...