Malvasia delle Lipari

Celebrated in the second half of the nineteenth century by Guy de Maupassant, who defined it "the wine of volcanos", Malvasia delle Lipari was imported to Sicily by the early Greek colonists around 588 BC, and precisely on the Salina island (which is part of the Aeolian archipelago), where the vines grew even then on volcanic soils, ventilated, three hundred meters above sea level. The apogee of the cultivation of this vine was achieved in the nineteenth century, when the producers of the island set up a fleet of a hundred sailing ships to trade the wine produced. Unfortunately, even here the phylloxera struck hard vineyards and only in the second half of the twentieth century some growers started again to cultivate this variety and make Malvasia wine. It is a plant of medium vigor, with medium-small, wedge-shaped and five-lobed leaves, with medium, cylindrical, winged and sparse bunches, medium-small, round and thin-skinned grapes.

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