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.”