Salvatore Marino Turi 'Eloro Pachino' 2023 Sicily, Italy

Grape 🍇: 95% Nero d’Avola, 5% Pignatello

Style 😋: Medium bodied with bright blackberry, cherry, and plum, framed by savory herbs and a mineral finish. Smooth tannins, fresh acidity, and a touch of earthy spice. 

Details 📌: From 25 year old bush trained vines in the Buonivini contrada of Pachino, just 7 km from both the Ionian and Mediterranean seas. Organic farming. Soils are silty clay limestone, well draining. Vineyards interplanted with olive, pomegranate, almond, citrus, grains, and carob. Harvested by hand, destemmed, fermented spontaneously in stainless steel with a one week maceration. Aged in concrete until the spring after harvest. Bottled unfined, minimal sulfur.

Story 📖 Salvatore Marino grew up in a family of winemakers in Pachino, where his father and grandfather made bulk wine. After a decade of experience in large wineries in California, Puglia, and Sicily, he launched his own project in 2017 with his wife Stefania. Today, he farms 15 hectares of polyculture land, half under vine, the rest planted with grains, citrus, olives, and more. Marino believes in small scale, hands on farming and building wines that reflect Pachino’s wind- wept coastal terroir. “Turi” is both his nickname and the name of his wine.