VINITY WINE COMPANY
PALARI
Sicily’s most elegant wines come from this small producer located in the
hills around Messina. The winemaking philosophy under Salvatore Geraci
is simple: make two wines with the same indigenous grapes but with different
selections. His Rosso del Soprano, a blend based on a wine known in antiquity
as Mamertino, comes from the native nerello mascalese, nerello cappuccio,
and nocera grapes.
The primary wine to be featured from Palari is Faro. Here the wine includes
a finer selection of the same grapes to make this a Tre Bicchieri winner.
Faro (which means lighthouse) is a little DOC, almost the smallest in
Italy. With just above 6 hectares (15 acres) in the DOC area, the production
is clearly tiny. Sicily's increasing focus on modern production techniques
and international varieties has had some great success, as at the Planeta
estate; but Palari provides a refreshing respite from this trend with
their great indigenous wines.
