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100% Made in Sicily<br />
A goblet<br />
full of sun<br />
and sea<br />
One of the best-loved<br />
raisin wines in the world<br />
is created from Zibibbo<br />
grapes and is produced<br />
on the island<br />
of Pantelleria.<br />
In the largest of the Sicilian<br />
islands, almost at the centre<br />
of the Mediterranean and<br />
only seventy kilometres from<br />
Tunisia, wines such as the<br />
Passito di Pantelleria are born.<br />
In that wind-swept land, with<br />
an average temperature of<br />
18-20° and less than 40 days’<br />
rainfall per year, the Consorzio Volontario<br />
per la Tutela e la Valorizzazione dei vini Doc<br />
dell’Isola di Pantelleria works to protect and<br />
make known the island’s production, from<br />
which stands out the celebrated raisin wine.<br />
by Francesco Torlaschi<br />
This wine has been produced on the island<br />
since ancient times, using the Zibibbo grape<br />
which originated in Egypt and was brought<br />
to Pantelleria by the Phoenicians. Almost<br />
the entire present-day national production is<br />
grown in Pantelleria.<br />
This grape has exceptional organoleptic<br />
properties and. The vines produce<br />
voluminous, oblong bunches with large,<br />
thick-skinned yellowy-green grapes that<br />
ripen rather late.<br />
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