GRILLO DOC SICILIA AS THE IDEAL SUMMER WINE

  • 16/07/2023

THE 2022 PRODUCTION OF THE NATIVE VARIETY REACHES 489% COMPARED TO 2017

Its intensity and aromatic freshness, between spicy vegetable notes, typical of citrus fruits and white flowers, welcome and enhance the typical dishes of summer cuisine, as if it contained the Sicilian sun: it is Grillo, the ideal wine of the summer, which from year to year he establishes himself more and more as an ambassador of a territory. There are about 8,500 hectares (data as of 2021) in which Grillo is grown on the island, registering a 273% increase compared to the production in 2004, when there were 2,300 hectares. Through different expressions, the Grillo offers, in each different area in which it is produced, a version of itself attributable to its varietal characteristics and, as is typical of a phenotype born and raised in Sicily, is able to create a 'interesting synergy. If we compare the bottled Grillo DOC Sicilia of 2017 - or 3,401,676 units - to that of 2022 - or 20,058,504 - we notice a 489%. Furthermore, from the data currently available, there are already 12,831,328 bottles in the first half of 2023, registering a 12% increase compared to the first half of 2022, when the bottles produced were 11,440,296. “ Al Grillo, a vine that stands out among the over 70 native varieties of the region - says Antonio Rallo, President of the Consorzio Tutela Vini DOC Sicilia - we attribute the merit of having been one of the main ambassadors of the great value of DOC Sicilia wine in Italy and all 'abroad. A true standard bearer of the quality of Sicilian wine in the world also thanks to its extreme versatility and combinability with the typical dishes of Sicilian and Italian cuisine, enhanced by its intense aromatic charge and organoleptic characteristics capable of fully expressing the terroir of origin " .

 

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