Wines of Sicily

That is, as many would say that you should NOT write a wine technical sheet. But that's how I wrote it, straight off, drinking Albamarina side B, telling what is really important in wine: emotion. Have you tried Albamarina 2012 yet? Well done, it's a good wine, I'm sure you liked it. Now the "B side" comes out. Side B are 10 hectoliters of Catarratto passito 2012 that I had decided to throw away. As I always do when I do something new and my mom disagrees (basically ALL of the time), I said to her: Mom, what do you care? If it doesn't turn out good, we throw it away – or sell it in bulk. She is not very convinced, but after a few days of discussions she finally lets me do it (thanks mom). So: I left 15 hectoliters (yes, 15, then I'll explain) of passito in overfilled barrels, hoping for the fioretta to come, for another 18 months. INCREDIBLY, this wine, despite having been sulphited (and don't ask me how it's possible, because I don't know either) continued to ferment very slowly for another 18 months, until from the initial 13.5 it reached an alcohol content of 15% vol – a little more actually, but we don't tell anyone, okay? At some point it FINALLY came out good. But no normal good, just good. So: the B side. I took 10 hectoliters and bottled it (which is what you can now find on #vgm) and kept the other 5 in strictly full barrels to make a perpetual one. Which, when it's good, is the best thing in the world of wine. PERPETUAL IS WINE - if you don't believe it, call De Bartoli. But the perpetual, if it turns out good, we'll talk about it in 5/6 years. For the moment there is the B side.

Sottosopra is a sparkling wine obtained with the ancestral method and is bottled without prior disgorgement. If you love strong flavours, drink it as it is, with all its yeasts, or keep it upside down in the fridge for 24 hours if you want to disgorge it before tasting it. Intense golden yellow, very veiled because still on its lees. ...

Nero d'Avola by Masseria del Feudo has an intense ruby red color. Pleasant menthol notes on the nose, combined with sweeter hints of small ripe red fruits and hints of pepper that make it intriguing and complex. On the palate the wine is velvety, sapid, with a vibrant finish, supported by an acidity typical of the grape variety which allows you to appreciate its typical aftertaste. To be combined with aged cheeses, grilled meats, roast meats, stuffed mushrooms

Intense ruby colour. Ample, rich bouquet with intense notes of small wild red fruits, delicate spicy note with a predominance of white pepper. Soft, enveloping taste with warm and long scents, great persistence, delicate sweet tannins with prominent ripe fruit and great minerality.

Produced from Nero d'Avola grapes with the short Charmat method, Rosso di Nera di Milazzo is a young and fruity sparkling Sicilian wine, whose sweetness blends with the fresh and acidic profile.

A wine with velvety tannins, but of extreme intensity balanced with a pleasant persistence. It has a dark purple red color, given by the grapes grown mainly in the absence of water given the arid land of Sicily. On the nose it has a very remarkable and rich fruity vein reminiscent of blackcurrant and blueberry. Delicious with grilled meat and aged or fresh cheeses.

Nadir Syrah is a still red wine from the Rapitalà di Sicilia winery, a label capable of boasting the Denomination of Controlled Origin wine. The vinification involves the use of 100% pure Syrah grapes. The still red wine is completely bred and vinified within the Rapitalà estate. The production soil is characterized by the presence of dark clays and tuffaceous sands which alternate with each other at about 300 – 400 meters above sea level. It is here that the unmistakable character of Syrah is cultivated, from whose bunches the Nadir is born, the antipode of Zenit. A wine that takes its name from the Arabic Nazir, which means deep, rare, precious.

Cent'Are Nero D'Avola Duca di CastelMonte is a Sicilian red wine with a ruby red color with sensations of red fruit and a slight spicy note. Quite soft dry taste, medium structure.

Baglio di Serramarrocco is a Sicilian red wine from Nero d'Avola grapes vinified in steel tanks. It stands out for its intense fruity bouquet and an uncommon softness and elegance. This wine is produced from a careful selection of only bunches of Nero D'avola and is characterized by complex aromas and an elegant structure.

Millions of bottles every year and, despite everything, an always constant quality; a wine production, that of Firriato, perfectly diversified between native and international vines that aims, only and exclusively, at the enhancement of the Sicilian territory. Convincing products for all tastes which, once tasted, bring back, in the glass, the charm of their land and the skill of an unconventional style, rich in olfactory and gustatory facets. Altavilla della Corte Rosso is the typical example of how Cabernet Sauvignon, the international vine par excellence, manages to adapt perfectly to the Trapani terroir of Borgo Guarini, drawing all the best from it and giving us a complex and unique wine. Deep almost impenetrable ruby red, it has a powerful and elegant nose of berries and walnut hull, vanilla and coffee. Structured and full on the palate, with nice tannic extraction and a long spicy finish. With pasta and beans, with stewed pork chops and with Sicilian Falsomagro.

Among the first pure Cabernet Sauvignon produced in Sicily. For his personality and originality he has been awarded many times over the years. Expresses the territory from which it comes: Corleone. With a purplish-red colour, it has a complex and persistent aroma, reminiscent of blackcurrant fruits and spices.

White wine produced in Sicily with Chardonnay grapes, golden yellow in color with intense and complex bread crust aromas, spices are felt on the palate with a rich and savory aftertaste.

Il Sole dei Padri "Dei Principi di Spadafora" is a pure Syrah perhaps something more than 100%, an organic red wine that comes from a single vineyard, 400 meters above sea level. Production 7,000 bottles. This Syrah is the offspring of the previous one, even if it has now surpassed it in importance.

Siriki – Syrah is the expression of the work in the vineyard, the attention to the land and the care of every single passage in the cellar, which allows us to add less and less sulfur to the wines up to its total absence”. Without added sulphites, spontaneous fermentation, unfiltered.

The Schietto Nero d'Avola IGP Sicilia “Dei Principi di Spadafora” is a red, still and dry wine, vinified with Nero d'Avola grapes. This wine is vinified in cement vats, aged in large barrels for one year and at least six months in the bottle. Lo Schietto is the closing of the circle, at least for now.

It is a fresh and elegant wine, with a superior structure to the white Don Pietro, included in the Don Pietro line. 7,000 bottles come out.

Don Pietro is a Sicilian red organic wine, produced with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Nero d'Avola grapes. The wine shows an intense ruby red color and nuances of garnet red, little transparency.

From 100% Nero d'Avola. Fruity and aromatic rosé wine, balanced tannins and the right structure. Cellar: Dei Principi di Spadafora.

Still and dry red wine, vinified with 100% Nero d'Avola grapes, with a pleasant scent of wild berries with pleasant vegetal sensations, a long aromatic persistence and soft tannins.

Red Syrah IGP dei Principi di Spadafora is obtained from Syrah grapes harvested manually in mid-September and cultivated in Monreale, on sandy clayey soils facing north-west, at an altitude of 250 meters above mare.Fermenta level. It ferments spontaneously from pied de cuve of grapes in the absence of sulfur dioxide in cement tanks and macerated for up to 8 days at a controlled temperature. Aged 1 year in concrete tanks and 6 months in bottle.

From a blend of Grillo and Cataratto grapes, vinified at different times and which wines are assembled in November. It is part of the Don Pietro line, created to evoke the history of the family; a line that uses wines with many personal implications that Francesco Spadafora dedicates to his father who has just passed away to thank him for having given him a splendid land to produce grapes. I think of the white Don Pietro as a small reserve compared to the bottle of Catarratto. The Catarratto used is extra glossy, a fact that certainly gives greater elegance; the Grillo is vinified in two different moments to ensure that there is greater acidity and, at a later time, a greater structure, considering the size of the Grillo bunch; moreover, a strict selection is made on the plan.

From Catarratto grapes comes a savory, fresh and light white wine, but with character. Its name recalls the Spanish origins of the Spadafora family; it is the most produced wine and is produced with a commitment equal to that which the company puts into the production of more expensive wines. The straw yellow colour, the scent of white fruit, the savory and fresh taste make it a simple and linear wine, which should be drunk within two years, to be combined with fish first courses and seafood appetizers. It should be served very cool in order to enhance its immediate drinkability.

Chardonnay and viognier blended at 50%. The first wine of Gurra di Mare with vineyards as far as the beach of Porto Palo (Menfi), the ideal terroir for the two international vines.

It comes from one of the first vineyards planted. A Merlot that expresses all the potential and the character of this vine which is excellently expressed in the Sicilian terroire. Of great structure and power without lacking in great elegance. Vinification: in steel. Aging: in 50% new and 50% second passage barriques.

RossoMandorla is the last born among the Martinez flavored products, the result of the union of two typical Sicilian flavours: Nero D'Avola wine and almonds. This combination gives life to a sweet dessert wine, with a deep red color typical of the vine of which it is a child, intense and persistent on the nose and in the mouth. In RossoMandorla the characteristic notes of Nero D'Avola wine, which are best expressed thanks to a long maceration process, are sweetened with the intense flavor of the aroma of bitter almonds. The processing is then completed with a small addition of alcohol.

Dedicated to grandmother Tanina, mother of 5 children, a generous and sweet woman but at the same time authoritative and decisive as Marsala La Madre presents itself: warm and enveloping in its amber colour, disruptive on the nose, sweet but never cloying in the mouth. In the Concia which is the phase in the production process in which the type of Marsala to be obtained is defined, the Mistella was added to the DOC base wine from Grillo grapes which gives it sweetness, cooked must and alcohol to then start the aging in oak barrels.

The Marsala Superiore Dolce bears the name of the Garibaldi because it is told both the type and the same preferred when he landed in Marsala to make the unification of Italy. With a residual sugar of 11%, it is the sweetest of the Marsala Martinez and probably for this reason it is the most loved by the female public. During the Concia which is the phase in the production process in which the type of Marsala to be obtained is defined, alcohol, Mistella and cooked must are added to the wine which gives it an intense amber colour. The aging process then begins in rivore barrels in which the wine is in contact with the air for many years, developing the characteristic oxidative bouquet.

Menhir is a liqueur sweet wine, with a small addition of alcohol, son of the island of Pantelleria. It is obtained from the Zibibbo variety which contains everything this splendid island contains: sun, volcanic earth, warm African winds. The grapes, after being dried in the sun, are left to macerate in the must during the entire fermentation which is blocked with a small addition of alcohol.

Jemara is a natural passito, with no added alcohol, son of the island of Pantelleria, where the entire production process is developed up to bottling, as required by the Production Regulations. It is obtained from the Zibibbo variety which contains everything this splendid island contains: sun, volcanic earth, warm African winds. The grapes, after being dried in the sun, are left to macerate in the must throughout the fermentation process, giving it unmistakable sweet and honeyed notes.

The LAUS range contains three elite sweet liqueur wines, with persistent and intoxicating aromas, the result of a long production tradition that has always been oriented towards enhancing the flavors and aromas of the grapes left to ripen in the very hot Sicilian sun.

The LAUS range contains three elite sweet liqueur wines, with persistent and intoxicating aromas, the result of a long production tradition that has always been oriented towards enhancing the flavors and aromas of the grapes left to ripen in the very hot Sicilian sun.

The LAUS range contains three elite sweet liqueur wines, with persistent and intoxicating aromas, the result of a long production tradition that has always been oriented towards enhancing the flavors and aromas of the grapes left to ripen in the very hot Sicilian sun.

The Complice Grillo from the Vinanti Ragusa winery is a DOC Sicilia made from one of the grape varieties with the greatest interpretative declination. Born in Chiaramonte Gulfi from warm and calcareous soils, the Vinanti white wine goes perfectly with cheeses, seafood and baked fish.

Syrah Capofeto Sibiliana is a red wine with a complex and full-bodied taste that recalls the well-defined personality of the vineyards of Marsala (TP). Produced exclusively from Syrah grapes, it is a Terre Siciliane PGI rich in aromas and hints of the local terroir: a voluminous glass with a harmonious character.