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.”