ZIBIBBO
synonims: Moscato di Noto.
single varietal: A straw colored wine with golden hues, if the leaves are left to dry the color becomes amber. It has a very wide and intense bouquet. Aromatic, fruity, and spicy with notes of candied fruit. Great sweetness and softness, coolness and flavour, which give the wine good structure, nice balance, and persistency.
The wine produced with Zibibbo grapes is yellow straw colored with golden hues or, if the grapes are left to wither, either on the vine or after harvest, the wine color becomes amber. This wine has a very wide, intense bouquet. Aromatic and fruity, it has spicy notes of candied fruit. It is sweet, soft, fresh and flavorful, with good structure, pleasant balance, and persistency. This grape was presumably brought to Sicily by the Phoenicians, who used it as a fresh, dry table grape, hence its name of Arabic origin, zibibbo, used in Sicily to indicate the state of grapes to be dried. The entire cultivation consisting of 1,762 hectares (around 4,354 acres) is found exclusively in the province of Trapani.
GRECANICO
synonims: Grecanico Dorato, Grecanicu biancu a girimoli, Recanico, Grecanicu biancu a cruci.
single varietal: A fine wine of golden-yellow color, discreetly alcoholic, with a very light pleasant scent of Mediterranean fruit, fresh, savory and harmonious.
This grape produces a fine wine with a golden yellow color, discreetly alcoholic, with a very light, pleasant scent of Mediterranean fruit. It is fresh, savory and harmonious to the palate. This is a white grape of Greek origin cultivated mostly on the Western coast of Sicily. Of the total 5,600 hectares (around 1,383 acres) of this variety cultivated in Sicily 4,000 hectares (about 9,884 acres) are found in the province of Trapani. Even though its origins are not well known, it was probably the same grape that the monk, Francesco Cupani, in his 1696 Hortus Catholicus, defined as the Sicilian Grecani.
PERRICONE
synonims: Perricone nero, Pignateddu, Niuru, Pirricuni, Tuccarinu.
single varietal: a purplish red-colored wine more or less intense, vine-scented, fruity, spicy, and warm with a good balance.
This grape mekes a purplish-red colored wine more or less intense, with a winey scent, and is fruity, spicy, and warm to the palate, with good balance. This typical red grape has been cultivated in Western Sicily from time immemorial. Despite the absence of written sources, it was one of the most common varieties planted in the 18th and 19th centuries in the provinces of Palermo and Trapani.