Vignaverde Marco de Bartoli

Grillo Vignaverde Contrada Samperi - De Bartoli winery

Vignaverde represents the freshest and youngest expression of Grillo, the symbolic vine of the De Bartoli winery. It takes its name from the "unexpected green" color of the grapes of the Samperi vineyard in the 2013 vintage. The cooler and less sultry climate of 2013 in fact allowed the Contrada Samperi vineyard to be extraordinarily luxuriant and verdant and to produce lively and vigorous grapes.

Denomination: Sicilia DOC

Grape variety: 100% Grillo

Production area: western Sicily, Contrada Samperi, Marsala (TP)

Extension of vineyard: 9 ha

Soil: flat calcareous-sandy

Training system: Guyot counter-espalier

Age of vineyard: over 20 years

Planting density: 3,500 plants/ha

Yield per hectare: 60 q

Harvest: second ten days of August

Vinification: after a rigorous manual selection of the bunches, the grapes are subjected to soft pressing. The low temperature must is decanted for 48 hours. The clarified part starts the fermentation in steel tanks, at a controlled temperature, by indigenous yeasts.

Aging: 7 months in steel tanks on the fine lees

Alcohol content: 12.5% vol

Acidity: 7.28

Residual sugars: <1.9

pH: 3

Total SO2: 29mg/l

Color: golden with brilliant reflections

Nose: fruity and floral bouquet with hints of orange blossom, citrus, yellow peach and iodine notes of sea water

Palate: fresh, mineral and with good persistence

Pairings: perfect white wine with first courses based on wholemeal pasta, morsels of sea bass, Sicilian truffle from the Iblei mountains

Serving temperature: 10-14°C

First vintage: 2013

Originally bottled by Società Agricola De Bartoli Srl - Pantelleria - Italy in the cellar of Marsala - Italy