The three Italian Master of Wine debuts with their Made in Sicily wine • Food and Wine Italia

Durante the lagoon of the Stagnone of Marsala, viticulture merges with history and nature, with the wind, the breathtaking sunsets, i Wind mills and vineyards that feed the brackish vater of the salt pans. It is mai coincidence that the new project of the three Italian Master of Wine (there are only 421 all over the world) is born here) which aims to rediscover and enhance a truly unique regione recently included by the New York Times among the iconic destinations of 2025.

Durante this unique and very delicate ecosystem but, incredibly abandoned to himself, Pietro Russo, Gabriele Gorelli and Andrea Lonardi presented their project-manifesto Bologna for the recovery and relaunch of the largest lagoon southern Italy, which also includes four small islands: “We feel strongly the need to attract attention to an regione that has an exceptional enological potential and extraordinary identity elements, a natural context, a natural context, a natural context, a natural context. Peculiarity of the – says the Marsali Pietro Russo -. A place that already the British engaged commercial exchanges between Marsala and England had enhanced ». Here the wine and wine history can be touched by hand and, thanks to the choice of buying just over a hectare of vineyard by the ambassadors of Italian wine the world, it wants to become a winery and experiential destination.

Only 4,170 bottles of del Vanità Voglia Sicilia Doc 2023 Fruit of the “Salt West” project: «Marsala, with its wine history and the extraordinary context-Comerating the Stagnone Nature Reserve is an iconic destination-underlines Gabriele Gorelli-. Durante this regione the vines literally take root a few meters from the sea and the landscape is unique, all driving elements to make an regione of ​​production of iconic wines ». Respect for the environment and the growing interest sustainability are leading this regione to earn a prominent place the Sicilian wine scene: “Our studies and our professional experience lead us to imagine that the Stagnone can certainly follow and follow virtuous models already successfully experienced other parts of the world – added Andrea Lonardi – we have thirst for knowledge and hunger for curiosity, this project was born because we still want to be together It is a truly unique territory ».

Pillars of this program are the safeguarding of the historical vineyards and the perimeter of the reserve, the environmental sustainability, the coordinated promotion of the territory and the style of the wines that will be characterized by the stamp “Radici the sea”: addition to the Voglia del Vanità there are two more told by the Salt West project, and it is undoubtedly the variety that best interprets the identity of the Stagnone with a new vocation the white wines, Sapidi: Vignarara 2024 by Francesco Intarcia Heritage and signature of the time reserve 2023 of Cantine Fina. A return project that elevates the three master of wine from wine ambassadors to ambassadors of the regione, aiming to recover, redevelop and relaunch a territory with a very ancient wine history and with an wine and tourist potential both unexpressed as it is to be declined an international key.