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De Bartoli – Bukkuram Passito di Pantelleria Padre della Vigna
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
DB5208-12
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5208-12
De Bartoli – Bukkuram Passito di Pantelleria Sole di Agosto
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
DB5207-17
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5207-17
Occhipinti – Frappato IGT Terre Siciliane
Frappato from Sicily, Italy
DB0314-18
Frappato from Sicily, Italy
100% Frappato. From 2 different estate parcels with vines averaging about 40 years old. One parcel is older, bush-trained vines on a sandier version of the estate's red-clay-limestone soils; the other is younger, Guyot-trained on more limestone. The sites are at a higher altitude and harvested...
BiodynamicDB0314-18
De Bartoli – Grappoli del Grillo
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5302-18
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
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....
OrganicDB5302-18
Occhipinti – Grotte Alte Cerasuolo di Vittoria Riserva
from Sicily, Italy
DB0548-15
from Sicily, Italy
50% Frappato/50% Nero d'Avola. Grotte Alte is Arianna's only DOCG wine, in this case Vittoria's most famous, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, a blend of the best native varietals, Nero d'Avola and Frappato. "Grotte Alte" is named for the limestone ridges on which the Occhipinti estate lies, straddling and...
BiodynamicDB0548-15
Halarà – IGT Terre Siciliane Rosso
from Sicily, Italy
DB3135-19
from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB3135-19
De Bartoli – Integer Grillo
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB0989-18
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
100% Grillo. The fruit for the Integer bottling comes from the same organically farmed, hand-harvested 9 hectares of estate vines planted in Samperi (Marsala) on a flat site of limestone-rich, sandy loam soils in 1996 as is used for De Bartoli's other dry Grillo-based whites; but the name of this...
OrganicDB0989-18
De Bartoli – Integer Zibibbo
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
DB0172-18
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB0172-18
De Bartoli – Lucido Catarratto
Catarratto from Sicily, Italy
DB5301-18
Catarratto from Sicily, Italy
100% Catarratto. Catarratto is the second most-planted variety in Italy and the most planted in Sicily. There is a more common type and then a more unusual, though not rare, type called Lucido, whose berries have a less powdery and thus more shiny surface and more significantly a higher potential...
OrganicDB5301-18
De Bartoli – Marsala Superiore Riserva
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5205-87
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
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...
93 VMOrganicDB5205-87
De Bartoli – Marsala Vergine Riserva
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5306-88
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
100% Grillo. The best way to consider this very traditional Marsala is in relation to its closest relative in the De Bartoli line-up, the unfortified Vecchio Samperi wine (see entry on our website). There are 2 key differences however: the vergine riserva wine was separated from the main solera in...
OrganicDB5306-88
Occhipinti – Passo Nero Passito
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
DB0549-17
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
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...
DB0549-17
De Bartoli – Pietranera Zibibbo
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
DB5201-19
Zibibbo from Sicily, Italy
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. To do this, in the 1980's Marco acquired a 3-hectare plot of Zibibbo vines planted in 1957 on north-facing...
91 VMOrganicDB5201-19
Acosta, Eduardo Torres – Pirrera IGT Terre Siciliane
Nerello Mascalese from Sicily, Italy
DB5401-17
Nerello Mascalese from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5401-17
Acosta, Eduardo Torres – Quota N Rosso IGT Terre Siciliane
Red blend from Sicily, Italy
DB4105-19
Red blend from Sicily, Italy
50% Nerello Mascalese/20% Grenache/30% Grecanico-Carricante-Coda di Volpe. Eduardo acquired this beautiful half-hectare parcel of ungrafted (hence piedi franco on label), mixed-variety, very old bush vines in the contrada or district of Nave in time to bottle it for the first time in the 2018...
OrganicDB4105-19
De Bartoli – Rosso di Marco Pignatello
Pignatello from Sicily, Italy
DB5202-18
Pignatello from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5202-18
Occhipinti – Siccagno Nero d'Avola IGT Terre Siciliane
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
DB0386-17
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
100% Nero d’Avola. Two parcels on white limestone soils go into Siccagno (local dialect for "good wine"), one being bush-trained, the other in double Guyot. The vines average 35 years old, are organically farmed and harvested by hand, generally in the first 10 days of October. The fruit is...
BiodynamicDB0386-17
Mary Taylor – Sicilia Bianco (Clara Sala)
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB3241-19
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB3241-19
Mary Taylor – Sicilia Rosso (AnnaMaria Sala)
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
DB3242-19
Nero d'Avola from Sicily, Italy
Again from the Contrada San Nicola vineyard, outside the village of Mazara del Vallo in western Sicily, we find Nero d’Avola vines tended to by the ever thoughtful Sala sisters. The vines are just 15 years old on average but the wine is ever complex. While some Nero d’Avola wines can be on the...
OrganicDB3242-19
De Bartoli – Sole e Vento Zibibbo/Grillo
from Sicily, Italy
DB5210-18
from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5210-18
Occhipinti – SP68 Bianco IGT Terre Siciliane
from Sicily, Italy
DB0387-19
from Sicily, Italy
60% Zibibbo/40% Albanello. The two varieties are native to Sicily--Zibibbo is more widely known as Muscat of Alexandria--and are grown on red sand soils over limestone rock, with vines averaging 15 years old on several different estate sites. The vines are organically farmed and hand-harvested. The...
90 VMBiodynamicDB0387-19
Occhipinti – SP68 Rosso IGT Terre Siciliane
from Sicily, Italy
DB0019-19
from Sicily, Italy
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...
BiodynamicDB0019-19
De Bartoli – Terzavia Metodo Classico Brut Nature
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5300-17
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
100% Grillo. The fruit is from De Bartoli's organically farmed estate vineyard in the Samperi contrada of Marsala, planted on sandy limestone soils and averaging 25-30 years old, trained in both Guyot and alberello styles. The fruit is harvested by hand and the whole clusters are gently pressed and...
OrganicDB5300-17
De Bartoli – Vecchio Samperi
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5206-NV
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
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...
93 VM, 92 WAOrganicDB5206-NV
Acosta, Eduardo Torres – Versante Nord Rosso IGT Terre Siciliane
Nerello Mascalese from Sicily, Italy
DB5400-18
Nerello Mascalese from Sicily, Italy
85% Nerello Mascalese/15% other. Eduardo organically farms parcels totalling 3.5 hectares on the north face or versante nord of Mt. Etna. Those parcels are scattered amongst 6 different contrade or districts: Pietramarina, Allegracore, Daini, Friera, Zucconero and Marchesa. The soils are variations...
OrganicDB5400-18
De Bartoli – Vignaverde Grillo
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
DB5200-19
Grillo from Sicily, Italy
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...
OrganicDB5200-19
Halarà – Vino Rosato
from Sicily, Italy
DB3134-19
from Sicily, Italy
95% Parpato, 5% Catarratto, facing north, at 80m above sea level. The vines are planted ad alberello (bush vines), 40 years old. Harvest was on August 24 and 30, 2019, at yields of 4,500kg/ha (31 hl/ha). The first part was whole-cluster pressed and vinified without skin contact. The second part...
OrganicDB3134-19