A brief history
He has the solar impetuousness of his land: when you meet him he would like to tell you everything in a few minutes, and let you taste everything, explain his joy and his satisfaction for positive judgments about his wine and together he would like to express his anger at how the wine of the South and becomes a southernist, and then, all of a sudden, he falls into the shadow of the men of his own land who have transformed the name Marsala, for decades, into an almost vulgar word.
He has tears in his eyes when he speaks of the degradation of his Sicily, he lights up with fury; but he relaxes immediately, in his thousand projects when the glass comes close to his lips.
The “ Vecchio Samperi”Is a wine that has nothing to compare with. Unique, arrogant, powerful, bold, but without disharmony, unrepeatable. And it is this wine - for a very fortunate adventure it could not be called Marsala because it is not fortified as the Marsala Vergine disciplinary provides - that brought him to the stage of the greats where he immediately had the role of the protagonist.
The company is twelve kilometers from Marsala, in that land of Sicily which is great in all its manifestations, for better or for worse; hard land of hard men, of families settled on the territory. Marco De Bartoli has the Gascon signs of the will to win on all fronts and he won, with the tenacious, stubborn belief of being right, and to prove it he speaks a lot as is used in Sicily, not to tell about himself, but to allow me to drink : there is his greatest proof.
