By Bill Nesto, Frances Di Savino
From the earliest Greek and Phoenician settlers who colonized the island within the 8th century B.C., the tradition of wine has flourished in Sicily. A parade of overseas rulers used to be equally interested in Sicily’s fertile land, sun-filled weather, and strategic place within the Mediterranean. the trendy Sicilian caliber wine used to be reborn within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties with the arriving of wines made with validated overseas types and state of the art enology. Sicily is just now rediscovering the standard of its indigenous grape types, corresponding to Nero d’Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Frappato, Grillo, and specified terroirs equivalent to the slopes of Mount Etna.
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The new Italian government imposed higher taxes on spirits, an important ingredient in Marsala production. As a result, Marsala producers had to increase their prices, which contributed to a contraction of the market. As the influence of the British entrepreneurs waned, more Sicilians entered the Marsala trade. , Giacomo Mineo & Figli, C. & F. lli. Martinez, and D’Alì & Bordonaro. By 1880, in the province of Trapani, the focus of Marsala production, there were about eighteen. By 1895 there were about forty.
Florio became Sicily’s model entrepreneur and industrialist. And at the time of his death, in 1868, his Italian assets were worth one-third more than those of Ingham, the most successful of the British merchants in Marsala. On May 11, 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi, leading a thousand volunteers called redshirts, embarked from Genoa in two ships and landed in Marsala. His goal was to unite Italy into a single nation. Sicilians, many of them poor peasants from the countryside, flocked to his army to liberate their island from Bourbon rule.
It was a great contrast to the ambertinted, high-alcohol, coarse-textured white wines typical of Sicily. After the unification of Italy in 1860, fifty thousand bottles of Corvo, half of the annual production, were sold in Sicily and the other half on the Italian mainland. By 1876, Corvo white and red were being exported to America and northern Europe. Some bottles even reached Australia. The wines won numerous awards at competitions and fairs around the world, medaling in Paris in 1878, Melbourne in 1881, and Bordeaux in 1882.