DUCA DI SALAPARUTA AND FLORIO: AS EVER, PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS
Duca di Salaparuta and Florio wines keep winning notable recognition. This season too Duca Enrico 2018 led the pack with its unmistakable character, obtaining top honors – aka “QUATTRO VITI” – in the ninth edition of the 2023 VITAE WINE GUIDE published by the Italian Sommelier Association.
Likewise Duca Enrico 2018, a Nero d’Avola in pure form, won a Gold Medal at Wow! The Italian Wine Competition hosted by Alessandro Torcoli’s Civiltà del Bere organization; the same which awarded gold medals also to three other Duca di Salaparuta wines: Sentiero del Vento, Lavico Etna Rosso and Lavico Etna Bianco. These are significant kudos for winemakers who tell with passion and pride an important story about their territory, their land.
Always at Wow! The Italian Wine Competition, our Florio Marsalas – two in particular – won Gold Medals. They were Marsala Superiore Semidry Reserve – SR0207 and Marsala Superiore Reserve Semidry – SR2715.
To be sure, the new Marsala Florio line is experiencing a golden period. The prominent sweet wines derive from a long process of research and subsequent aging designed to attain an ambitious objective: namely, redefine the category of Marsala wines while disclosing the too-long forgotten fact that there is no one marsala, there are many. The wine guide of the Milan-based daily Il Corriere della Sera – “I migliori 100 vini e vignaioli d’Italia 2023 – Come bere bene, spendere il giusto e trovare i produttori che puntano sulla sostenibilità” (The 100 best wines and winemakers in Italy – How to drink well, spend the right amount and find the producers who focus on sustainability) edited by Luciano Ferraro and Luca Gardini – gave our Marsala DOC Virgin Reserve 2008 a just about perfect score of 99/100.
All makes for prestigious repute in Italy, at once highlighting the excellence of our Marsalas and again doing us proud… proud of our work in maintaining the enological tradition of our territory, carried forward in these years by our Florio and Duca di Salaparuta Cellars. To learn more about our wines and to purchase them directly online, go to:
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