Heritage, 2023

Old-vine Zibibbo left on its skins in clay pots buried in the vineyard. Stone fruit and orange blossom, with a gentle grip.

Gabrio Bini, a Milanese architect, moved to Pantelleria (a volcanic island closer to Tunisia than to Sicily) in 1995 and now makes wine there with his son Giotto. Heritage is a single-plot Zibibbo from old, low bush vines on black volcanic soil, farmed by hand and horse. The grapes ferment on their own yeasts in terracotta amphorae buried in the vineyard and stay on their skins like a red. Nothing is fined or filtered. Stone fruit and orange blossom, gentle tannin and a precise, polished feel.