Salvatore Marino "Turi" 2022 Nero d'Avola Eloro Pachino Sicily

750ml bottle

12.5% abv

Purple fruited; deep yet lifted & fresh; hint of gravelly minerality; gorgeous farming.

This 90/10 Nero d'Avola/Pignatello field blend is the only red wine produced from Salvatore Marino's 2-hectare vineyard on the southeast coast of Sicily. Clay-limestone earth laden with marine fossils is nestled between the Ionian and Mediterranean seas, and the 30-year old vines are hand-tended with the lunar cycle. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, and just one week of maceration. This Nero d'Avola is a more seaside version than most, with notes of black fruit, iodine, cherry, and kalamata olive, but only medium-weight, with low tannin.

A 5th generation winemaker, but the first in his family to produce his own wine, Salvatore Marino strives to maintain the equilibrium of biodiversity in the vineyard, working entirely by hand, with green manure as the only additive in the vineyard. Although he owns 5.5 hectares of total land, only 1.5 hectares are under vine—an attempt at maintaining biodiversity. Strictly organic farming, with only bush-trained vines on his property, "in the tradition of his ancestors."