BUKKURAM SOLE D'AGOSTO PASSITO DI PANTELLERIA

100% Zibibbo

12-16 °C

Dark shining amber colour with golden reflections. The nose combines candied zest of lemons, oranges and mandarins with notes of candied ginger, pineapple and dried fruits. On the palate, despite its concentration, the fruit presents itself with a lot of freshness, with a persistent and delicately floral finish.

Perfect with seasonal fruit, cream filled treats and pastries, dark chocolate.

Contrada Bukkuram, Island of Pantelleria, Trapani, Sicily. Volcanic, terraced slopes

Harvest in the middle of August of a part of the grapes to start a sun-drying process of about 2 weeks, in suitable areas, delimited by dry walls made of volcanic stones. The remaining grapes go on maturing on the vines up to September for the making of the base wine that, after a fermentation with wild yeasts, is macerated for about three months with the sun-dried grapes that bring sugar and aromas. The wine, after a short passage in oak barrels for 6 months, is aged in stainless steel tanks and finally bottled.

Bukkuram, from the Arabic “father of the vineyard”, is the name defining the area of Pantelleria preferred in ancient Arab times for the cultivation of Zibibbo grapes (Muscat of Alexandria). It is here, on the only plateau with a South-West exposure on the island, that both vineyard and winery are located, on an area of almost five hectares of land (that is 9 ac), at 200 m above sea level (656 ft), where our wine cellar is hosted in a historic dammuso (typical farmhouse) of the 18th century. The vineyard is trained as low, free-standing bushes with the “alberello pantesco” system, declared by the UNESCO World Heritage agricultural practice on 2014. It is also here, in 1984, that Marco De Bartoli first bottled his passito wine that, as a tribute to the charming surroundings, took the name of Bukkuram, a moscato passito of Pantelleria proud to have awaken from a long hibernation the interest for a dessert wine that even Greek mythology counts among its legends.