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Serve at:
12 - 14 °C.
Longevity:
05 - 10 years

Pairings
- Start up year: 1980
- Oenologist: Renato e Sebastiano De Bartoli
- Bottles produced: 250.000
- Hectares: 25
Marco De Bartoli has signs of these every day fights, but he has won against all odds, with the tenacious, stubborn conviction of being right, and in order to demonstrate it, he speaks a lot, as it is common in Sicily, not to speak about himself, but to allow me to drink: here it is his greatest evidence.
Today he has a family of which he is proud of: Renato and Sebastiano, sons, are quite adults, while Josephine, the younger daughter, inherited the name of his great-grandmother, of French origins. Read more


Name | De Bartoli Vecchio Samperi Perpetuo |
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Type | White green still |
Denomination | VdT |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 16.5% by volume |
Grape varieties | 100% Grillo |
Country | Italy |
Region | Sicily |
Vendor | Marco De Bartoli |
Origin | Western Sicily, Village of Samperi, Town of Marsala (Trapani). |
Soil composition | Medium-textured sandy limestone, flat. |
Cultivation system | Head-training and Espalier Guyot. |
Plants per hectare | 3,500. |
Harvest | By hand, in late September with crates. |
Wine making | Manual selection of the grapes. The grapes are soft pressed followed by natural decanting, traditional fermentation operated by wild yeasts in oak and chestnut vats at room temperature. |
Aging | Fractional blending in oak and chestnut vats for an average of 15 years, with an addition of younger wine every year, using the traditional perpetual method, similar to Solera system. |
PH | 3.27 |
Year production | 6500 bottles |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |