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Marco De Bartoli Passito Di Pantelleria Bukkuram Sole D'agosto 2022 750ml

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750ml
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Italy
region
Sicily
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100% Zibibbo. Mainly from 35-50-year-old, bush-trained vines, grown very low to the ground on very light, sandy, brown, volcanic soils in the walled and windy clos of the De Bartoli’s small Bukkuram estate on the island of Pantelleria. Two dried-grape passito wines, Sole di Agosto and Padre della Vigna, come from this vineyard, which is organically farmed and harvested by hand. The harvest takes place in two stages. The first is in mid-August—in a normal vintage, these bunches are dried on mats in the sun for two weeks. The second harvest is several weeks later. This riper fruit is direct-pressed and spontaneously fermented; the sun-dried bunches are then destemmed and added to the fresh wine for a three-month maceration. That wine is aged for six months in oak barrels and released as “Sole di Agosto” or “Sun of August”, a light, fresh style of sweet wine of around 180 grams/liter of residual sugar. In very special vintages, De Bartoli makes the rare “Padre della Vigna” (”Father of the Vineyard”) instead: the first-harvest fruit is dried in the sun for a minimum of four weeks before being added to the young base wine for three months of maceration. This wine is aged for a minimum of three years, and often much longer, in barrel. It usually comes in around 200 grams/liter RS and is a much more complex expression of Zibibbo. Generally speaking, only one or the other of the two passitos is made in a vintage.
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Marco De Bartoli Passito Di Pantelleria Bukkuram Sole D'agosto 2022 750ml

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Region: Sicily

There are few wine regions in the world with such an ideal terroir and climate for viticulture as that found on Sicily. This Italian island has been an important center for wine production for several thousand years, with experts claiming that the ancient Greeks were the first to bring wine-making techniques to the island. The almost year-round sunshine and rich, fertile volcanic soil of Sicily makes the vintner's jobs very easy, and grapevines thrive and flourish more or less everywhere on the island. Sicily is widely renowned for its excellent sweet dessert wines, and for fortified wines such as Marsala, yet the popularity of their dry red and white produce is ever rising, thanks to their drinkability and fantastic fruit flavors which really manage to put across the sunny, almost tropical nature of the island they are grown on.
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Country: Italy

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.