Catarratto Barraco 2024
ArtisanalThe Catarratto by Barraco is a medium-bodied white wine with a good aromatic complexity, aged in steel for 10 months. Aromas of citrus, yellow flowers, and nutmeg integrate into a soft texture with pleasant salinity.
The Catarratto di Barraco is the synthesis of two peculiarities of the Mediterranean winemaking landscape. The first is the grape variety that composes it, Catarratto. A grape that has been a protagonist of Sicilian winemaking history since antiquity, capable of giving this exceptional and luminous wine its typical straw-yellow color with golden reflections that suggest the sensory softness of its aromatic nuances. The sweetness of the fruit and broom are pleasantly balanced on the nose by spices combined with the lively mineral notes derived from the dark soils, rich in organic substances, on which the Catarratto vines grow, at an altitude of 120 meters above sea level and located in the Marsala area.
The second peculiarity of Catarratto is the artisan of wine, Nino Barraco, who accompanies and does not shape the birth of his wines, from the vineyard to the cellar. This revolutionary producer cares for the wine according to his life philosophy, learned by following a personal path marked by the desire to change the Sicilian agricultural reality, steeped in social imbalances. An icon of passion and spontaneity, just like his wines.
After a degree in political science, not forgetting his passion for macrophotography, Nino Barraco comes to understand how the pursuit of perfection, even in wine, is of no use. Perfection exists in nature and is constantly before our eyes. «It is hidden in the everyday, in times and things», he reveals. This is how he decides to produce his wines with biological methods to preserve the real essences of nature and to allow free expression of the terroir of his vineyards and the grapes they give. Nino Barraco has succeeded again this time, with his Catarratto.