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Grillo

Nino Barraco’s Grillo is a reinterpretation of the wine produced in Marsala before the British invented the Marsala, the same wine that is traditionally drunk at the farmers’ tables still today. The grapes are selected from a vineyard planted 32 years ago on a sand dune just a kilometer from the sea. Nino harvests in late August, when the grapes for a few days reach a delicate balance between acidity and alcohol content.

In the cellar, after a short maceration on the skins, the grapes are pressed in a manual press that allows to extract only the “free run”, the most precious part of the juice. The primary fermentation starts spontaneously from wild yeasts present on the skins. The wine is aged until May in steel and bottled without clarification processes, filtration, or tartaric stabilization.

The end result is a wine with prevailing tertiary aromas (candied citron, bitter almond, very fruity and mineral) that doesn’t concede any compromise on its taste. The varietal character is revealed by a pseudo-sense of fatness.

Accolades

Grillo 2009

Resources

Tech sheet

Label

www.vinibarraco.it

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