Marco de Bartoli

Very few winemakers can be said to have saved an entire wine category. Marco de Bartoli is one of them. When he returned to his family's baglio in Samperi in the late 1970s, Marsala had become synonymous with cooking wine and industrial production. He set out, with characteristic tenacity, to change that, and largely succeeded.

Marco de Bartoli grew up working the family farm near Marsala before his love of speed took him to professional circuit racing. When his racing career wound down, he returned to the baglio his grandmother had inherited from the Pellegrino wine family, a property with ancient cellar infrastructure and old solera barrels that local farmers had been selling off for years. Marco bought back what he could find and began reconstructing the estate's wine tradition in the early 1980s. He focused on restoring the in perpetuum method, a perpetual blending system similar to sherry's solera, that had been the foundation of traditional Marsala before British merchants introduced fortification in the 18th century. His creation, Vecchio Samperi, is an unfortified wine of Grillo aged in a solera system spanning dozens of vintages, with a 20-vintage average blend at any given release.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Marco de Bartoli producer profile.

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