Catarratto Barraco 2024
Winegrower's winesThe Catarratto by Barraco is a medium-bodied white wine with a good aromatic complexity, aged in steel for 10 months. Aromas of citrus, yellow flowers, and nutmeg integrate into a soft texture with pleasant salinity.
The Catarratto di Barraco is the synthesis of two particularities of the Mediterranean wine scene. The first is the grape variety that composes it, the Catarratto. A grape that has been a protagonist in Sicilian winemaking history since ancient times, capable of giving this exceptional and luminous wine its typical straw-yellow color with golden reflections that suggest the sensory softness of its aromatic nuances. The sweetness of the fruit and broom are pleasantly balanced on the nose by spices combined with the lively mineral notes derived from the dark soils, rich in organic substances, where the Catarratto vines grow, at an altitude of 120 meters above sea level and located in the Marsala area.
The second peculiarity of Catarratto is the wine artisan, Nino Barraco, who accompanies and does not shape the birth of his wines, from the vineyard to the cellar. This revolutionary producer cares for the wine according to his life philosophy, learned by following a personal path marked by the desire to change the Sicilian agricultural reality, imbued with social imbalances. An icon of passion and spontaneity, just like his wines.
After graduating in political science, without forgetting his passion for macro photography, Nino Barraco comes to understand how the pursuit of perfection, even in wine, is of no use. Perfection exists in nature and is constantly before our eyes. "It is hidden in the everyday, in time and in things," he reveals. This is how he decides to produce his wines using organic methods to preserve the true essences of nature and to allow free expression of the terroir of his vineyards and the grapes they yield. Nino Barraco has succeeded once again with his Catarratto.