2015 Marco de Bartoli ‘Pietranera’

Price: $30Region: Pantelleria < Sicily < ItalyGrapes: ZibbiboVineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming; 60+ year old vines on volcanic, terraced slopes in Contrada Cufurà, Pantelleria, as low, free-standing bushes trained with the “vite ad alberello” system, declared a the UNESCO World Heritage agricultural practice; ferment and aging 6 months in stainless steel; bottled unfined/unfiltered; with <20ppm SO2; 11% ABVWinemaker: Marco de Bartoli  Marco di Bartoli comes from a Marsala-producing family. He wandered for a while, became a race car driver, but found his way back to the family business, intent on changing up the status quo – which in his region was pretty industrial. He moved all farming to organics, insisted on hand harvesting in a machine-driven wine region, worked only with estate-grown grapes and fully ripened, un-chapitalized fruit (instead of adding sugar), and native yeast fermentations. In 1984 Marco acquired vines and a winery on the island of Pantelleria—a dry, d