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White Wine of Italy
Az. Ag. Guccione 'C' 2017
12.0% ABV
Produced from a single-hectare plot of Catarratto Lucido grown at high altitude, this wine is fermented with native yeasts and is aged in stainless steel for two years prior to bottling. It received an additional four years of bottle aging prior to release. Delicate, powerful and expressly mineral—with notes of grilled apricot, beeswax, marjoram and clove—this elegant, soulful wine can be enjoyed thru 2030 and beyond. Full details
Az. Ag. Guccione 'T - 12/5' 2012
14.0% ABV
Produced from a 2.8-hectare plot of old-vine Trebbiano—grown in isolated pockets in the Sicilian highlands southwest of Palermo since the 15th century——this extraordinary wine was fermented with native yeasts and was aged in traditional 3000L Mittelberger tini for five years prior to bottling. It was rested in bottle for six additional years prior to release. This is a complex, glowing, geologic wine—autumn in a glass—with lambent notes of apple tart, beeswax, porcini mushroom, almond paste and jasmine. Enjoy through 2040 and beyond. Full details
Az. Ag. Guccione 'T' 2017
13.0% ABV
Produced from a single vineyard, 2.8-hectare plot of old-vine Trebbiano—grown in isolated pockets in the Sicilian highlands southwest of Palermo since the 15th century—this wine is fermented with native yeasts and aged in stainless steel for two years prior to bottling. Its lengthy elevage prior to release—nearly six years—results in a wine of compelling mineral savor, with notes of stone fruit, orange blossom and mountain herbs, roasted nuts and sea salt. Elegant and searching, this wine can be enjoyed thru 2030. Full details
Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia '1° Passaggio' 2022
13.0% ABV
Originally for family and friends, this bright, gently oxidative wine marks the first pass' of old-vine Grillo ('Griddu') from the renowned Contrada Triglia in western Sicily. Farming on its marly, red clay soils—known locally as terra rosa—is in accordance with biodynamic and regenerative principles and everything in the vineyard is done manually, by hand. Fermented in stainless steel tanks with native yeasts, this wine spends 10-12 days on its skins and remains on the lees during its yearlong elevage in old 500L oak, acacia and chestnut casks. Full details
Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Griddu Verde' 2020
13.5% ABV
The wine that best captures Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia's Dos Tierras project, 'Griddu Verde' marks the 'second pass' of old-vine Grillo ('Griddu') from the renowned Contrada Triglia. Co-fermented with Verdejo planted in Contrada Coreleo more than twenty years ago, when Pieropaolo and Beatriz first returned from Spain to Sicily, it also offers a sly allusion to the co-mingled history of the island—the Kingdom of Two Sicilies—and its centuries' long Iberian influence. Full details
Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Pipa 3/4'- 5°
15.5% ABV • Oxidative
Pipa ¾ represents the acme of Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia's ambitions and reclamation of the long tradition of la basa Marsala and the ancient story of perpetuo wine in western Sicily. It is, in essence, an unfortified Marsalese wine of the kind that would have once been common prior to arrival of John Woodhouse and the British practice of fortification in the late 18th century, and makes the case for Grillo as one of Italy's greatest wine varieties—white or red. Full details
Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'XI Perpetuum'
15.5% ABV • Oxidative
This singular, dry, oxidative wine is made in perpetuum, an ancient solera-like process marrying old wine with young, renewing a tradition that has been practiced on the island since the time of the Romans. Late harvest, third-pass Grillo ('Griddu') from the renowned Contrada Triglia is aged oxidatively for nearly twelve years and is married to Catarratto Lucido from the 2015 and 2016 vintages that spent nearly 60 days on its skins. Full details