Barraco 'Fior di Rosso' Terre Siciliane 2021

Barraco 'Fior di Rosso' Terre Siciliane 2021Press 4 Mix Red August 2024 Direct Press Selection Nino Barraco is a son of Marsala, where successive generations have watched the market and the price of their wines take an epic nose dive. At one point, owing to not just wine but capers and salt, Marsala was the second wealthiest city in Italy. But now it has just roughly half of the vineyards and production it once did. Even more shocking is that only 3 or 4% of the wine is bottled: most is sold

5 g/L acid and 8 g/L residual sugar

The Venetian basaltic soils are rarely top of mind in the wine context

There's an amazing umami on the finish that is haunting and soulful

They are located in the northern town of Leiria and are included in the Lisbon appellation

like restoring obscure

she decided to pursue viticulture for the first time at the age of 60

It spends two weeks on its skins and a year on the lees in old barrels

mostly relegated to growing tomatoes

soft and layered

and complex

and for this I am thankful

and some salty