WHITES
Region of Italy:
Producer: Caruana
Vintage: 2020
Vitigno: Inzolia
50 blend of tank and skins. notes of yellow fruit, Mediterranean herbs, and saline notes. In the mouth, it is mineral, and dry.
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Region of Italy: Sicilia
Producer: Nino Barraco
Vintage: 2023
Vitigno: Catarratto
Barraco's Catarratto is a medium-bodied white wine with a good aromatic complexity. The wine is aged in steel for 10 months and see’s no oak to showcase the style and aromas of citrus, yellow flowers, and nutmeg. the texture is soft and persistent with the pleasant salinity we love to see from this variety grown in Sicily.
Service tips: Linguine with bottarga and bread crumbs.
Region of Italy: Puglia
Producer: Guttarolo
Vintage: 2021
Vitigno: verdeca with a touch of fiano & gioia
A few days skin contact and matured in porcelain - technically not a white, but not entirely an orange either. Its a nice in-between style. This is pure drinking pleasure, with saline refreshing up the fruity pert palate.
Cristiano started his winery in 2004, just outside of Gioia del Colle, located on a 400m a.s.l plateau between Taranto and Bari, Puglia. This is a very special place, magic for wine for the climate conditions (sea breezes and elevation) and for the amazing limestone soils of Le Murge Plateau.
Service tips: Serve it at 10 C
Region of Italy: Sicilia
Producer: Nino Barraco
Vintage: 2018
Vitigno: Grillo
Nino is chanelling more of a traditional Marsala style of white with this blend of his most loved cuvees; Vignammare, Alto Grado, and his classic Grillo are added in equal parts plus some freshly macerated whole bunches are added in and left to marry together for a year in stainless steel. The result is a fine wine with a warmed pastry, nutty, persistent feel. A true sense of place translates of course with salty minerality keeping it fresh, alive and immensely enjoyable.
Service tips: Serve at 6-8 C. With grilled white meats and the ocean nearby.
Region of Spain: Catalonia
Producer: Escoda - Sanahuja
Vintage: 2018
Vitigno: Macabeo, Grenache blanco and Parellada
Southern Catalonia produces some of them most textural, insanely fresh and driven whites. This blend is a lightly macerated style that spends around a week on skins and comes to maturity after 6 months in clay amphora.
Region of Italy: Abruzzo
Producer: Rabasco
Vintage: 2024
Vitigno: Trebbiano
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Region of Italy: Abruzzo
Producer: Luca Bevilacqua
Vintage: 2022
Vitigno: Passerina
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Region of Italy: Sicilia
Producer: Alice Bonaccorsi
Vintage: 2017
Vitigno: Carricante
Region of Italy: Sicilia
Producer: Barraco
Vintage: 2023
Vitigno: Grillo
This Grillo comes from a vineyard right on the Ocean with infiltration of salty water. After a cool day of resting, the grapes are pressed into stainless steel. A saline, briny, wine with mineral nuance..
In 2004, Nino Barraco took over his family’s vineyards in Marsala with a vision that defied convention. Farming organically and working only with native grapes, he set out to craft single-vineyard wines that express purity and a profound sense of place. Along the windswept coastline, he now tends nearly twenty hectares planted to Grillo, Catarratto, Zibibbo, Nero d’Avola, and Perricone. Each parcel is harvested, fermented, and bottled separately, revealing the individuality of soil and sea. Saline and sunlit, Barraco’s wines are, in his words, “the sea in a glass.”
Region of Italy: Sicilia
Producer: Barraco
Vintage: 2024
Vitigno: Grillo, Catarratto
A collaboration with the incredible Nino Barraco in Marsala, Sicilia. From a small selection of barrels and cement tanks, mostly Grillo. Think sun on your skin, sea breeze, and fresh oysters. Then sip—zesty lemon, preserved lemon, and a kiss of salinity. Vinu Pi Ostriche is the sea, captured in a glass.
In 2004, Nino Barraco took over his family’s vineyards in Marsala with a vision that defied convention. Farming organically and working only with native grapes, he set out to craft single-vineyard wines that express purity and a profound sense of place. Along the windswept coastline, he now tends nearly twenty hectares planted to Grillo, Catarratto, Zibibbo, Nero d’Avola, and Perricone. Each parcel is harvested, fermented, and bottled separately, revealing the individuality of soil and sea. Saline and sunlit, Barraco’s wines are, in his words, “the sea in a glass.”