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| Drinking window: Drink between 2012 and 2017 (based on 45 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Papies on 8/29/2014 flawed bottle: Aeolian Sailing Trip & a bit of Etna; 8/22/2014-8/31/2014 (Eolian Islands): This wine in good condition is very good. We loved the 2012(Papies 91) but this 2009 has seen one too many summers in Sicily and was oxidised. Shame but a good lesson (2393 views) | | | Tasted by tkim42 on 5/1/2012 & rated 91 points: Lots of citrus and lemon on the nose. Great minerality on the palate with acidity that can cut through and accompany almost any food. Complex with a long, smooth finish. (2407 views) | | | Tasted by AudunG on 3/18/2012 & rated 84 points: Bouqet dominated by oak and smoke. Very aromatic and big. Would probably had been more interresting without the paramount smell of oak. (2303 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 6/26/2011 & rated 89 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 medium lemon yellow color; appealing, yeasty, focused, tart lemon, ripe grapefruit, citron nose; tasty, tart lemon, chalk, mineral, citron palate with grip; medium-plus finish (vines planted in 1996; natural decantation for 48 hours at cool temperatures; aged in French barrels for 8 months on the lees) (2937 views) |
| The World of Fine Wine, June 2013, Issue #40
(Marco De Bartoli Grappoli Del Grillo (sicilia Igt) Sicily) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (6/26/2011)
(Marco De Bartoli Grillo Grappoli del Grillo) Light medium lemon yellow color; appealing, yeasty, focused, tart lemon, ripe grapefruit, citron nose; tasty, tart lemon, chalk, mineral, citron palate with grip; medium-plus finish (vines planted in 1996; natural decantation for 48 hours at cool temperatures; aged in French barrels for 8 months on the lees) 89 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.Grillo Wikipedia Grillo entryItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorSicilycossyra |
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