Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 SPBURGUNDY and dusty roses—a bouquet of

and dusty roses—a bouquet of primary concentration that carries through the palate with crunchy red berries and saline spice

Vinified in barrique with regular bâtonnage

and built to drink with food rather than meditate over

and instantly recognizable

Sustainably farmed vines planted in 1978 to clay and limestone soils

Marco de Bartoli Sicilia Bianco Pietranera 2024 SPBURGUNDY and dusty roses—a bouquet ofIn 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