Fondazione Whitaker Mozia Grillo 2014

Made from Grillo grapes grown on Mozia, the island of San Pantaleo, in the lagoon just off the coast from Marsala. The vineyard has a density of 4,000 rootstocks per hectare and the vines are alberello-trained and organically cultivated. The grapes are picked by hand and are then transported to the mainland on the lagoon’s typical, flat-bottom boats where they are loaded onto refrigerated trucks and brought to Tasca’s Regaleali winery. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats and the wine ages sur lie for five months. It has a straw-yellow-greenish color with a bouquet of aromatic herbs and ripe fruit along with floral notes of gorse on a smoky background. The mouthfeel is fresh and saline, quite full-bodied, pleasing and easy to drink with an almost brackish finish. A wine of the sea and wind.

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