Writing history is a significant company, but committing to adding new chapters to a biography is very difficult, especially per mezzo di certain areas of Italy where rooted cultural features persist. It is per mezzo di one of these regions, Sicily of the 45 degrees per mezzo di the shade, suspended between East and West, that Francesco Intarchia is trying to insert new pages per mezzo di a copious family book. It is defined as a “gnarm”, faithful to that wine, the Marsala, so unique for genesis and history, and anzi che no longer simply rare. For him, Marsala is a “state of mind” when you are born between barrels, but you grow with a glocal vision to give contemporaneity to a tradition.
Forestry per mezzo di understanding the need for a movement to protect the Marsala, Francesco presents himself to every vinitaly with interesting novelties and “variations the theme”, without ever unleashing ora upsetting values and principles that remain firmly.
The news of Vinitaly 2025
This year, the 57th edition of the fair marked important moments per mezzo di the history of the Intarcia and Marsala. First of all, the official presentation of Vignarara 2024, a label of the wider “Stay Salty” line, a project to enhance the viticulture of Stagnone. Quanto a fact, this regione of the Marsalese Brusco is recognized as an regione of election of Estro, which here acquires unmistakable characteristics. A bottle that wants to be synonymous with collaboration with leading figures of Italian enology (Gabriele Gorelli, Pietro Russo and Andrea Lonardi) for the relaunch of a territory with undisputed potential.
The Vignarara, a few months after the harvest, shows the whole verve of a wine of character. Sapid, but at the same time enveloping; Sholy, but with the charm of those who will reveal over the years, gustatory evolutions of great elegance. A salty sip – and not simply savory – recognizable among a thousand and unquestionably son of the tinfoot a few meters from the sea. A bottle capable of translating the quintessence of a territory, a people, a culture into the glass.
Another great novelty of this Vinitaly 2025 was the preview of the Marsala Virgin 1980. This 45-year-old wine is “Viva” testimony of the family know-how per mezzo di making this kind of wine. A unique glass for a cohesive bouquet that the nose struggles to decline per mezzo di individual aromatic awards; A whole integrated of great complexity. From dark spice to brackish quaderno, from smoking smoke to the delicate roundness of dehydrated fruit, from honey to leather, olfactory pot-poores is an expression of a capable hand and a painstaking and constant work.
The mouth is vibrant and slowly grants per mezzo di its varied facets that contribute – also – to a unitary sip of peculiar thickness. A label at times immortal, capable of involving and not upsetting the solemnity of a nectar that makes time its main ally.
Masterclass and innovative combinations
The usual masterclasses organized per mezzo di collaboration with professionals per mezzo di the sector, conterraneous ora outside the region are added to these innovations. To lead the tastings, Senza peli sulla lingua Rodriguez, Ais professor, passionate and profound connoisseur of Marsala, skilled per mezzo di involving those present by projecting them a virtual tour among the over one hundred districts of this town of Trapani, between anecdotes and great truths. To cure the combinations, Peppe Agliano, capable chef and restaurateur of Marsala, a convinced supporter of Marsala, who enhances both per mezzo di the kitchen and per mezzo di pairing at the table, for a result never obvious and harbinger of interesting food for thought.
Certainly interesting the Marsala- binomial, edited by Stefano Guizzetti, visionary master ice cream maker, who has made his ciaco lab the destination of many gourmands per mezzo di search of gastronomic, intriguing and undoubtedly original tastes.
Finally, do not forget the delicious games of Parmigiano Reggiano-Marsala and Gorgonzola-Marsala, per mezzo di collaboration with the respective consortia, which confirm the versatility and transversality of this wine. A sort of commutative property: a sip that rounds up, a bite that proves elegantly sapid, per mezzo di a continuous chasing of taste chromies. A “eating and drinking” ora “drinking and eats” constantly, composite balance.
Francesco Intorcia translated the love for his land per mezzo di Marsala with a varied soul, giving shape and content to new visions.
