Nino Barraco Old Vine Catarratto Orange 2018, a natural orange wine from Sicily, Italy, showcasing the Catarratto varietal
Nino Barraco, natural wine producer, tending the vines in his vineyard in Marsala, western Sicily, Italy
Nino Barraco
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Nino Barraco Old Vine Catarratto Orange 2018

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Tasting notes

The combination of 40-year-old alberello vines on black volcanic soils and days of skin contact pulls something rarely seen from Catarratto: smoked apricot, stone fruit, and a persistent saline mineral finish that reads more like the sea than any cellar technique. It is a direct argument that this grape, so long dismissed as a bulk blending variety, has real things to say when farmed well and left alone.

  • Organic
  • Unfiltered
  • No Added SO2
BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Smoked ApricotStone FruitSea SaltVolcanic Mineral
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Orange Wine
Wine Style:Medium Body
Grapes:Catarratto
Farming:Organic
Vintage:2018
Alcohol:12%
Country:Italy
Region:Sicily
Appellation:Terre Siciliane IGP
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Producer profile

Nino Barraco

Nino Barraco is based in Marsala in the province of Trapani, western Sicily. He took over his family's vineyards in 2004. His family background is in farming, not winemaking: his parents and grandparents sold just-fermented base wine to the large Marsala houses during the era of industrial Marsala production. Starting with the 2004 vintage, Barraco set a different course, working organically from the outset and focusing on single-vineyard, single-variety wines from indigenous Sicilian grapes.

His estate covers approximately 20 hectares of vineyards spread along the coast north and south of Marsala. The main grape varieties are Grillo, Catarratto, Zibibbo, Nero d'Avola, and Perricone. Farming is organic with no irrigation, no synthetic treatments, and manual harvesting. Several parcels include vines trained in the traditional alberello (bush vine) method, which keeps yields low and shields grapes from intense summer heat and coastal winds. Total production is around 40,000 bottles per year.

In the cellar, Barraco uses spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, typically in stainless steel tanks. He practices no fining and no filtration, and adds little to no sulfites. Macerations on skins vary by wine and vintage: his Catarratto releases have ranged from brief 24-hour contact to several days, producing wines that sit anywhere from textured white to light orange in style. The majority of wines are bottled the year following harvest. Separately, Barraco produces an oxidative project called Altogrado, a single-vintage wine aged for seven or more years in small barrels without topping up, reviving a pre-industrial Marsala winemaking tradition.

Wine region

Sicily, Italy

Western Sicily, centered on the province of Trapani, is the heartland of Catarratto. The climate is hot and dry with consistent Mediterranean winds off the sea, and the soils range from clay-limestone flatlands near the coast to black volcanic terrain. Marsala sits at the western tip of the island, with vineyards spread both north and south along the coast. The combination of intense sun, sea influence, and volcanic mineral soils gives the wines from this zone a distinctive smoky, saline quality that is unlike anything produced elsewhere on the island.

Most of Barraco's wines are classified under the Terre Siciliane IGP designation, which allows single-varietal natural wines outside the stricter production rules of the Marsala DOC. Catarratto is the most widely planted white grape in Sicily, accounting for roughly 33% of the island's total vineyard area, concentrated in Trapani, Palermo, and Agrigento provinces. Historically associated with Marsala blending and bulk wine production, the variety is now being reconsidered by producers like Barraco who work with old vines, volcanic soils, and skin contact to extract more complexity and site character from the grape.

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