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but everything is held in check by Alpine freshness

ages a year or more in big Slavonian oak casks that season the wine without flavoring it

intense Pinot Noir built for the long haul

Juan Carlos Vizcarra's family works estate vineyards at 800-plus meters

Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 spirits-template @ployezjacquemart)In 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