Winery SicilyMarsalì Merlot
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The Marsalì Merlot of the Winery Sicily is in the top 0 of wines of Sicily.
Details and technical informations about Winery Sicily's Marsalì Merlot.
Discover the grape variety: Noiret
A complex interspecific cross between NY65.0467.08 (NY33277 x chancellor) obtained in 1973 by Bruce Reisch and Thomas Henick Kling of Cornell University at the Geneva/New York Experimental Viticultural Station (United States). It can be found in Canada, Poland, ... in France it is unknown.
Informations about the Winery Sicily
The Winery Sicily is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Sicily to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sicily
Sicily is the Southernmost region of Italy, and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. For over 2500 years, Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) has been an important centre of Mediterranean viticulture, although the reputation and style of its wines have changed considerably over time. The island was once best known for its Sweet muscatels (see Pantelleria), and later for its fortified Marsala. Today, many of its best-known wines are Dry table wines produced under the regional designation IGT Terre Siciliane, or Sicilia DOC (see below).
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
