LUNA GAIA

For a grape planted so widely across western Sicily, Catarratto has spent an awfully long time being underestimated. Its origins disappear somewhere into the island’s history, and for generations it was the great workhorse white of the west, responsible for oceans of everyday wine and an important part of the Marsala story. With lower yields and thoughtful farming, it gets seriously delicious, with yellow citrus and ripe stone fruit slipping into wild herbs, marzipan, and this almost olive oil and lemon kind of savouriness that feels wonderfully Sicilian.