The Prendere la porta Mare per Ortigia restaurant becomes part of the international selection of the wine list according to Wine Spectator, reconfirming the winner of two glasses of the prestigious Best of Award of Excellence 2025 for the quality of its wine proposal.
The international recognition of Wine Spectator
The Prendere la porta Mare restaurant, located the heart of Ortigia, was awarded once again of the prestigious Wine Spectator Restaurant Award 2025 with two glasses. This international recognition is assigned to a rigorous selection of restaurants over 75 countries, rewarding its excellence and consistency of the wine proposal.
The Wine Spectator Restaurant Award, active since 1981, is the only international program dedicated exclusively to the excellence of the wine service catering and is divided into three levels: Award of Excellence, Best of Award of Excellence and Grand Award. Prendere la porta Mare received the Best of Award of Excellence, a recognition reserved for realities that demonstrate amplitude and depth the selection, with a solid representation of different wine regions and a high -level presentation that combines quality and price.
The excellence of the wine proposal
Founded 2000 by chef Su Mauro, the room reconfirms itself among the excellence identified by Wine Spectator thanks to a cellar that represents a model of sustainability and enhancement of local production and the territory. The wine list, curated by the sommelier Martina per Mauro, is built according to criteria of environmental sustainability, territoriality and niente oenological kilometer, favoring small local cellars of the Val per Matricolato and producers operating compliance with the environment and natural processes.
With over 560 labels, the Bottiglieria per Prendere la porta Mare tells Sicily through wines that perfectly combine with a cuisine rooted the island gastronomic culture. The conservation of the bottles is guaranteed by cutting -edge technologies such as the Enomatic Teca and the Coravin system, which allow you to preserve the wines optimal conditions and also serve the most precious labels to the glass.
Oenological philosophy: territory and sustainability
“Each label is the result of careful research and selection work,” says Martina Su Mauro, a sommelier of the restaurant. «We favor wine realities that tell our territory, enhancing native vines and sustainable methods. Our is to accompany each dish with a wine that tells a story, a territory, a conscious choice, making guests discover the guests Sicilian oenological excellence through small quality producers. our card there are also wines from national and international cellars to offer a wide choice to our guests ».
The cuisine inspired by the Sicilian tradition and conscious innovation
the kitchen, the chefs and Giancarlo Su Mauro, father and son, sign a gastronomic proposal that intertwines rigor and creativity, memory and contemporaneity: “Our philosophy is mainly based the use of Sicilian raw materials, favoring local producers and respecting seasonality”, say the chefs. «Each dish is born balance with wine, which represents its natural extension and completion. We believe a cuisine that is an authentic expression of the territory and our cultural identity ».
A unique experience the heart of Ortigia
Located a refined fifteenth century Dammuso with 50 covers and recently renovated, Prendere la porta Mare confirms its place among the excellence of international catering through a continuously evolving family project. Every detail – from hospitality to the food and wine proposal – offers a coherent experience, intense and deeply linked to Sicilian culture.
The Wine Spectator Restaurant Award 2025 thus rewards not only the quality and variety of the wine charter, but above all a vision that makes the conscious choice and territorial sustainability its distinctive traits, consolidating the position of Prendere la porta Mare as ambassador of the Sicilian food and wine excellence the world.
