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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by juffer on 7/25/2013 & rated 94 points: Outstanding! A very elegant, well balanced restrained "orange" style wine. Citron nose with a touch of baking spices. Medium mid palate, long juicy finish with some bitter stone fruit that reminds me of plum brandy without the heat. Really a unique, interesting and well balanced wine. (2105 views) | | | Tasted by tward on 1/11/2013 & rated 90 points: An engaging wine that you can go back to over a period of several days - it keeps well even with little left in the bottle. It has an orange rust color that belies its grip and minerality. Fairly complex nose but dominated by baked tart apple, like apple pie, along with some lemon zest and floral notes. Fairly bracing / quenching, but still good on its own. Worth trying. (2264 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 6/25/2011 & rated 90 points: Marsala Master and Sicilian Icon Marco De Bartoli; 6/25/2011-6/26/2011 (San Francisco Wine Trading Company, and Italian Consulate, San Francisco, California): Light golden yellow color with 4 millimeter clear meniscus; tart apple, citron, floral nose; juicy, tart apple, citron, mineral, Meyer lemon, apple skin palate; medium-plus finish (2935 views) |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (6/25/2011)
(Marco De Bartoli Lucido) Light golden yellow color with 4 millimeter clear meniscus; tart apple, citron, floral nose; juicy, tart apple, citron, mineral, Meyer lemon, apple skin palate; medium-plus finish 90 points |
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| Marco De Bartoli Producer website
Marco De Bartoli. Family roots
From Luigi Veronelli e Nichi Stefi (1986), I vignaioli storici I, Mediolanum Editori Associati, Milan
He is a person as solar and impetuous as his boisterous land. When you meet him, he would tell you everything in a few minutes, and let you taste everything he produces, explaining its joy and satisfaction after reading those positive reviews for his wine and, at the same time, expressing his anger as it is considered to be the wine from the South, like an expert of Southern Italy politics. And suddenly he hurls abuse at those men of his own land who has turned the name "Marsala", for decades now, into an almost vulgar word.
He has tears in his eyes when he speaks about the deterioration of his Sicily. He is lighted up in fury, but he relaxes right away, absorbed by his uncountable projects, when he approaches the glass to his lips.
"Vecchio Samperi" is a wine that you cannot compare to anything else. Unique, arrogant, powerful, bold, but without disharmony, one of a kind. And it is this wine - luckily it cannot be called Marsala, as it is not fortified as the Marsala Virgin regulation requires - that brought him to the scene of the bigger ones where he immediately had the role of the protagonist.
The winery is twelve kilometers far from Marsala, in that land of Sicily that is great in every and all representation, for better or for worse; hard land of hard men, of families settled on the territory. Marco De Bartoli has signs of these every day fights, but he has won against all odds, with the tenacious, stubborn conviction of being right, and in order to demonstrate it, he speaks a lot, as it is common in Sicily, not to speak about himself, but to allow me to drink: here it is his greatest evidence.
Today he has a family of which he is proud: Renato and Sebastiano, sons, are quite adults, while Josephine, the younger daughter, inherited the name of his grandmother, of French origin. He is proud of his origin too, as his father produced wine as well. He renovated the wine cellar not only with taste and humility, but with the pride and the conscience to have achieved what he hoped: his wines have multiplied and - beyond Vecchio Samperi, that it exists in its 10, 20, 30 and 40 years version (of the last series only 250 bottles, without price, only to the privileged of God) - he now produces: Marsala Superiore Twenty years, Josephine Doré, an easier to drink Inzolia, (the younger part of Vecchio Samperi that is, obviously, aged with Soleras method), Josephine Rouge, sweet red from Pignatello grapes and, at last, Moscato Passito of Pantelleria, from Muscat grapes of the cru Bukkuram, meaning in Arabic "father of the vineyard" to indicate the best place to produce raisins.
When you hang out with Marco De Bartoli, you discover he is powerful and kind, with his curl short-hair, he smiles and you realize that he perfectly knows which are, in life and in winemaking, the true values.LucidoCatarratto 100% and not LucidoItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorSicilycossyra |
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