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Region: Sicily
Classification: DOC (1969) Modified (1984)
Area: Hailing from Italy’s sunny southern region, Marsala is an ancient city on the coast of Sicily.
Color: Light Amber
Description: A higher dry alcohol fortified wine (18%) made with Grillo, Catarratto and Inzolia grapes. This wine completes fermentation before it is fortified. The addition of cooked grape must and the ageing in oak casks give the typical amber colour of this wine.
Type: Fortified
Taste: Moderately dry with delicate notes of apricot.
Aroma: Balanced with hints of apricot, dry fig and pleasant vanilla notes.
Alcohol: 18%
Aging: Aged in oak barrels for a minimum of 12 months.
Food: Pastries and marzipan.
Unconventional: stewed wild pigeon breast with marsala wine wrapped in Nebrodi black pig lardo (cured stips of fatback).
Temperature: Serve at 45° – 53° Fahrenheit, 8° – 12° Celsius.
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