Continental climate wines, in the south of Italy

2021 Guttarolo Anfora rosato 100% Susumaniello, macerated a day on the skin. Ageing in amphorae made from porcelain for a little stint before put into the market. Red berries, pomegrate with chalky minerality, texutral and complex despite be only 10,5% ABV. Lots of energy on the palate with high crispy acidity, savoury and salty are those element make the wine nourish and in a way Glou Glou; without being short and simple. On the opposite side this is a specail rose with high complexity and a real continental climate approach. We are not along the Danube or Rhine or the Marne river; instead we are down to Puglia an hot region in the south of Italy. Cristiano Guttarolo The vines are placed on a chalky, limestone soils, of Karst soil about 350 million years ago. Karst is an erosional process that changes the landscape by removing the carbonate rock at the surface and underground. This soil give the wines a minerality and a natural acidity. Gioa del Colle terroir is also cooler due to high altitude and maritime breezes, as it is encapsulated between two seas. Cristiano founded the Guttarolo winery in 2004, on a 400 metre plateau outside the ancient town of Gioia del Colle, 40km inland from the coastal city of Bari. The 7 hectares of vines are planted mainly to primitivo, as well as susumaniello, negroamaro and verdeca. All of Cristiano’s wines are fermented in stainless steel tank with natural yeasts and zero sulfur.
2020 Barraco Grillo 100% Grillo from a 50 years old bush vines along the coast of the mediterranean sea in front the town of Trapani in Sicily. The soil consist on red sand and clay. The wine spends twenty-four hours on the skins before a fermentation in steel and ten months of élevage in concrete vats. Saline element with high acidity. fleur de seul perception trough nose and palate, little nutty oxidative element with great waxy coated palate. Nice long finish with sappy refreshing acxidity. Antonino Barraco Marsala is in the wild north-west of Italy, a land swept by the Scirocco wind where vineyards sit at sea level on sandy soils, and perceived for years as suitable only for fortified wines made from grapes with low acidity and high sugar. Antonino Barraco saw beyond the fashion for planting international varietals in Sicily and instead retraced the traditions of his father and grandfather, focusing instead on local varietals such as Grillo, Catarratto, Zibibbo, Nero d'Avola, Moscato di Noto and Pignatello. The estate began producing wine in 2004 as a family endeavor and Nino has since continued growing his own grapes and leading the winemaking process across the various microclimates of Marsala. Each swirl and sip of Nino's wines transports you to Marsala: the warmth, the breeze, the golden light and the sense that the sea is never too far away. They are savory, sun-kissed wines that, like Nino, have a lot to say.
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