De Bartoli 2023 Passito di Pantelleria Bukkuram Sole d'Agosto

100% Zibibbo from Bukkuram on the island of Pantelleria. The vines average around 50 years old and are trained a low bush vines to hide form the winds, grown in light, sandy volcanic soils. Harvest is manual and conducted in two stages. The earlier one takes place at normal ripeness; these bunches are dried on mats in the sun for two weeks. Several weeks later, riper bunches are harvested, direct-pressed and spontaneously fermented with indigenous yeasts. Then the sun-dried bunches are destemmed, and those raisins berries added to the later-harvest wine for a 3-month maceration. The wine is aged for 6 months in oak barrels. Even with around 180 grams/liter of residual sugar, it is a lighter, fresher style of sweet wine. Burnt orange, smoke, sea salt, and herbs.