Vigna La Miccia Marsala Superiore Oro Riserva 2020 500ml
The Vigna La Miccia Marsala Superiore Oro Riserva 2020 from Marco de Bartoli is a Marsala made from Grillo, grown in western Sicily, built on tension rather than sugar.
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About this wine
Character
This Marsala follows the path Marco de Bartoli set out on in 1985: less sugar, more tension. The power and personality of a classic Marsala remain, but here they appear in a finer-boned frame with subtle freshness.
Terroir and origin
The Grillo grapes grow in western Sicily around Marsala, where the variety has thrived on limestone-rich soils since Phoenician times. The family farms 30 hectares organically, with 3,500 vines per hectare trained in traditional alberello or Guyot, harvested exclusively by hand. Renato de Bartoli oversees the vineyards and cellar in Samperi, where his father began in 1978.
Grape variety and vinification
Grillo brings high natural acidity and reaches high alcohol levels without losing its elegance; here it is 18.5% ABV. Fermentation uses native yeasts. During vinification, all contact with oxygen is avoided to rule out unwanted oxidation. The wine is aged in French oak, with barrels continuously topped up.
On the palate
The nose is generous: orange blossom water, candied orange, dried apricot, prickly pear and fig, joined by toasted almond, hazelnut and dripping honeycomb. The palate contradicts this first impression: taut, saline, lean. The texture is sinewy rather than fat, with fine spice and pale tobacco, carried by a consistently vibrant acidity that gives the wine its shape and aromatic grounding. The sweetness remains part of the overall picture, never its defining feature.
Distinctive features
Between 1995 and 2000, the winery stayed closed because the authorities refused to classify a drink with 18 percent alcohol as wine. A former racing driver, Marco de Bartoli gathered old solera barrels in the 1970s and reconstructed the family's historic cellar; today Renato, Sebastiano and Giuseppina de Bartoli run the estate.
