Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 spirits-template ages a year or more

ages a year or more in big Slavonian oak casks that season the wine without flavoring it

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000 bottles of this a year

The 2021 vintage was cold and cruelly small across Burgundy after frost gutted the crop

but everything is held in check by Alpine freshness

Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 spirits-template ages a year or moreIn 1989, Marco de Bartoli did something nobody on Pantelleria had thought to do: he made Zibibbo dry. The grape had been the island's dessert wine workhorse for centuries, and turning it into a serious dry white was close to heretical. Pietranera means black stone, for the volcanic rubble the vines grow in, and it comes from a plot in the Cufura district planted in 1957 on north facing terraces at 350 meters, where the sun is kinder. It is aromatic