Wines

- Passito - Zibibbo igp 2020

Bright straw-yellow with golden hues, this wine is Zibibbo grapes at their finest and most elegant, with an aroma reminiscent of acacia honey and mature yellow fruit. A smooth and fresh flavour with moderately sweet overtones, moderate alcohol content in balance with its acidity.

Technical Specifications
IGP • Sicilia	Wine from organic grapes
Vineyard	The Zibibbo grapes come from the Salemi estate located at an altitude of about 170 meters above sea level. The soil has a loamy structure.
Grape Harvesting	Mid September. The grapes are harvested by hand in the coolest hours of the day.
Vinification	Part of the grapes picked are overripe and part are partially dried on the vine. The overripe grapes undergo a soft pressing and are placed in stainless steel tanks. The partially dried grapes are added halfway through the fermentation process, for a period of about 20 days, to enrich the aroma. After said period the dried grapes are pressed to extract the natural sugars which will enrich the “passito” wine. A long period of bottle ageing follows in order for the wine to reach optimum nose-palate symmetry.

Funaro Azienda Vinicola

The entrepreneurial project headed by Funaro siblings Tiziana, Clemente and Giacomo began in 2003, when they decided to capitalise on the grapes grown in the family vineyard for the past three generations. The farm it is situated in the province of Trapani between the towns of Salemi and Santa Ninfa, in an area specialised in wine production located from 150 to 450 meters above sea level. Our grapes are harvested by hand so as not to harm the vines and in order to select the best grapes. In 2011 both the farm and the wine cellar achieved an important goal: they received the Organic” certification.

Sicilia

Like much of the Italian mainland, Sicily’s winemakers have moved away from producing high-volume, unremarkable wines, to focus on quality wines of great character. Its dry, well-structured red and white wines could not be further removed from the sweet Marsala and Moscato of the island’s past, and this has not gone unnoticed by international markets that have never had such a thirst for Sicilian wines. Sicilian producers have paved the way for other Southern Italian winemakers to begin to exploit the country’s rich environmental diversity, with wines that achieve the potential first admired by the Greeks and Romans.