Carlo Pellegrino Marsala Superiore Garibaldi Dolce

Carlo Pellegrino Marsala Superiore Garibaldi Dolce

£16.95

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Key info
CountryItaly
RegionMarsala
GrapeCatarratto, Grillo
TypeFortified
VintageNV
Alcohol18% ABV
BodyFull
SweetnessSweet
AromaticComplexHoneyedRich
Pairs with — dessert, fruit-based puddings, hard cheese, soft & blue cheese

The wine

Intense amber in colour. The aroma is intense, persistent and pleasant, with dried fig and hints of plum. Round on the palate with sweet, honeyed notes and more dried fig. A classic sweet Marsala Superiore, and the one Garibaldi is said to have taken a liking to.

Marsala is an English invention. In 1773 the Liverpool merchant John Woodhouse sheltered in the port, tasted the local wine and realised fortifying it would let it survive the voyage home. Nelson ordered it for his fleet. Dolce is the sweet style, and Superiore requires a minimum of two years of ageing.

The producer

Carlo Pellegrino

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Carlo Pellegrino was founded at Marsala in 1880 and remains family-owned, one of the historic names of Sicilian wine.

Marsala itself is an English invention. In 1773 a Liverpool merchant, John Woodhouse, sheltered in the port, tasted the local wine and realised that fortifying it would let it survive the voyage home; within decades it was a staple of the Royal Navy and of British tables, and Nelson ordered it for his fleet. The style then collapsed into cooking wine through the twentieth century, and the serious dry versions are only now being rediscovered.

The house also works Pantelleria, a volcanic island closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, where Zibibbo bush vines are grown in hollows dug into the ground to shelter them from the wind. That practice was recognised by UNESCO in 2014 as intangible cultural heritage, the first agricultural practice ever listed.

Frequently asked questions

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