Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 no ups fading to a vanilla-tinted glow

fading to a vanilla-tinted glow

calcareous soils and big day-to-night temperature swings give the wine its tension and lift

Mid palate the flavor turns deeply spicy

Fermented naturally and aged in used barrels—pure

A rare and worthwhile bottle from a great Pauillac address

Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 no ups fading to a vanilla-tinted glowIn 1989, Marco de Bartoli did something nobody on Pantelleria had thought to do: he made Zibibbo dry. The grape had been the island's dessert wine workhorse for centuries, and turning it into a serious dry white was close to heretical. Pietranera means black stone, for the volcanic rubble the vines grow in, and it comes from a plot in the Cufura district planted in 1957 on north facing terraces at 350 meters, where the sun is kinder. It is aromatic