Nose

Scents of fruit preserved in alcohol and chestnuts

Palate

Dry and persistent tannins, with flavours of liquorice, nougat and dark cocoa

Growing Conditions

- PRODUCTION AREA: The coastal strip of the municipality of Marsala and inland in the Province of Trapani

- SOIL: Medium-textured, dry and very sandy red soil

- VINEYARD: Bush-trained in the typical “alberello marsalese” method and/or low espalier trained, with a density of at least 4,000 plants per hectare

- CLIMATE: Insular with mild winters and very hot, dry summers, marked by strong winds

Harvest

Annual harvest, starting in mid-September, of over-ripened grapes that are left on the vine so that they become fully ripe and high in residual sugars and polyphenols

- YEAR OF HARVEST: 1999

Winemaking

White grapes for DOC Marsala

- YEAR O FORTIFICATION: 2001

Powerful extraction forces come into play through the use of the traditional wine press to create musts loaded with colour, high dry extracts and intense savoury marine notes. Fermentation in cement, marked by continuous micro-oxygenation, which carries on even after fermentation, preparing the wine for its encounter with alcohol, thus initiating the “process of producing Marsala DOC”

The encounter of wine, mistelle (grape must used to make DOC Marsala with the mutage technique, which involves the addition of ethyl alcohol derived from vines so that the fermentation process is stopped), cooked must and a small percentage of alcohol

- ANGEL’S SHARE: 33%

Aging

20 years. The first stage of ageing took place in old 16 hl tuns. Since July 2008 it has been in the 25.5 hl 6DAG vat, 20 metres away in the 140-metre-long Cantine Garibaldi, 115 metres from the sea

Appearance

Amber

Food Pairing

Perfect as meditation wine