Passito

Excellent with dry desserts, but also with soft cakes made with bitter chocolate or with berries. Try it with particularly tasty mature or blue cheeses.

Excellent with dry desserts, but also with soft cakes made with bitter chocolate or with berries. Try it with particularly tasty mature or blue cheeses.

The Aleatico Passito dell'Elba docg 2021 is a natural passito obtained from the aromatic Aleatico vine, native to the island of Elba. After the harvest which generally takes place during the first half of September, the grapes are dried on special racks in the open air for a period of about 10-15 days. Vinified in steel containers at a controlled temperature. Maceration on the skins for about 7 days.

From one of the oldest vines in the world, Moscato Bianco, our Passito di Noto is born. Passito is an ancient wine that becomes current with a modern drying system. Explosive aromas of exotic fruit, jasmine, candied citrus, it is both complex and easy to love. The ideal companion of the great Sicilian tradition of sweets and ice cream.

It has an amber yellow color with golden reflections. The aromas are intense and persistent and recall dried and candied fruit…

This sweet wine has a unique style. The red color is impenetrable, the scent evokes blackberries, dried fruit and cinnamon, the taste is of a singular balance. In fact, the dense texture of tannins imprisons acidity and sweetness and everything is confused, creating a gustatory sensation of harmonious fullness. It is thanks to the drying of Sagrantino grapes on racks that such a concentration is obtained. Originally Sagrantino grapes were used only for the making of this sweet wine, drunk on the occasion of religious ceremonies in the villages of the area.

Ben Ryé Donnafugata is one of the most famous Sicilian passito wines in Italy and in the world, which has become a paradigm of Passito di Pantelleria. Its name in Arabic means "daughter of the wind", an epithet attributed to this Mediterranean island, struck by winds that blow on the bunches of grapes and on the crops, bringing with them intense and very characteristic aromas , the same ones we find in wine. The image that decorates the label is created by the designer Nicola Vitale and illustrates the work and effort of the winemakers in this area, illuminated by intense sunlight, with the 'dammuso', a typical architecture of the island in the background.

The name of this label recalls the one and only architect of its being, it is in fact the sun The name of this label recalls the one and only architect of its being, it is in fact the summer sun of our beloved land, the summer element of our beloved land, the element that determines its organoleptic characteristics. which determines its organoleptic characteristics. A raisin wine of great value, our Solarys bianco, a late harvest of grapes from A raisin wine of great value, our Solarys bianco, a late harvest of grapes from autochthonous vines, grown as saplings, left on the plant to dry gradually until the autochthonous vine , grown as saplings, left on the plant to dry gradually until reaching the natural sugar concentration; sweet, never cloying, a delicate to reach the natural sugar concentration; sweet, never cloying, a delicate nectar to be served chilled, with fresh fruit tarts or blue cheeses.

Drying of native red grapes and the traditional method blend together in this wine, the result of a blend with a rigorous character. The unique style expresses elegance and pleasantness, enhancing the territory as the main protagonist of the production philosophy.