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    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia '1° Passaggio' 2022 bottle

    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia '1° Passaggio' 2022

    ItalySicily 13.0% ABV

    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 '1° Passaggio' 2022 label
    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Griddu Verde' 2020 bottle

    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Griddu Verde' 2020

    ItalySicily 13.5% ABV

    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 'Griddu Verde' 2020 label
    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Pipa 3/4'- 5° bottle

    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'Pipa 3/4'- 5°

    ItalySicily 15.5% ABV

    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 'Pipa 3/4'- 5° label
    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'XI Perpetuum' bottle

    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'XI Perpetuum'

    ItalySicily 15.5% ABV

    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

    Badalucco de la Iglesia Garcia 'XI Perpetuum' label