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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.

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White - Sparkling

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Terzavia Cuvee Riserva VS

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White - Sparkling, Italy, Sicily, Marsala
White - Sparkling

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Brut Nature Terzavia

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White - Sparkling, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
Rosé - Sparkling

Marco De Bartoli Terzavia Cinquata Rosé

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Rosé - Sparkling, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Catarratto Integer

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White, Italy, Sicily, Terre Siciliane
White

Marco De Bartoli Grecanico Integer

White, Italy, Sicily, Terre Siciliane
White

Marco De Bartoli Grillo

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Grillo Grappoli del Grillo

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli I Bianchi "Sole e Vento" Grillo e Zibibbo

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Lucido

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Lucido

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White, Italy, Sicily, Terre Siciliane
White

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia

White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vignaverde

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Terzavia Occidens

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White, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White

Marco De Bartoli Zibibbo Pietranera

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White, Italy, Sicily, Terre Siciliane
Orange

Marco De Bartoli Grillo Integer

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Orange, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
Orange

Marco De Bartoli Zibibbo Integer

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Orange, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
Red

Marco De Bartoli Pignatello Rosso di Marco

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Red, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Passito di Pantelleria

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Passito di Pantelleria
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Passito di Pantelleria Bukkuram

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Passito di Pantelleria
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Passito di Pantelleria Bukkuram Padre della Vigna

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Passito di Pantelleria
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Passito di Pantelleria Bukkuram Sole d'Agosto

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Passito di Pantelleria
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Passito di Pantelleria Vino della solidarieta'

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Passito di Pantelleria
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Joséphine doré

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi "Quarantennale"

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi "Ventennale"

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White - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
Red - Sweet/Dessert

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Josephine rouge

Red - Sweet/Dessert, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Inzolia di Samperi

White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala marsala vergine riserva

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore 1986 Riserva Marsala Superiore Samperi

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Oro Riserva

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Oro Vigna La Miccia

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Oro Vigna La Miccia Riserva

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Oro Vigna La Miccia Riserva 5 Anni

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva 10 Anni

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva Amodeo

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva Vecchio Samperi

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva Vecchio Samperi 20 Anni Solera

White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Riserva Vecchio Samperi 30 Anni Solera

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Superiore Vecchio Samperi 10 Anni Solera

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala Superiore
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Vecchio Samperi

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Marsala Vecchio Samperi Perpetuo

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi 10 anni Riserva - 70s bottling

White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi 10 anni Riserva - 80s bottling

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Sicilia Vecchio Samperi Black Label

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White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Sicilia
White - Fortified

Marco De Bartoli Vino Marsala Vergine Riserva 1988

White - Fortified, Italy, Sicily, Marsala

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