2017 Marco De Bartoli ‘Lucido’ Catarratto

Region: Trapani < Sicily < Italy Grapes: Catarrato Lucido Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming; 2 hectares of 15-year-old vines are planted on sandy loam soils; the fruit is cooled, whole-cluster-pressed and naturally settled before fermentation with native yeasts in stainless steel vats; aged on its fine lees in steel for 7 months, then bottled unfined/unfiltered with <30ppm SO2; 12% ABV Winemaker: Marco de Bartoli Marco di Bartoli comes from a Marsala-producing family. He wandered for a while, became a race car driver among other random things, 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.  Marco passed a few years back, but his adult children Renato, Sebastiano a