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Duca di Salaparuta 2005 Duca Enrico Red (Sicilia)
- $67
This beautiful vintage of Duca Enrico shows riper fruit than the 2006, with its hint of green leaf. The fruit here is plush, rich and chewy, with long-lasting tones of blackberry pie, leather, spice and moist pipe tobacco.
— M.L.
(4/1/2012)
Duca di Salaparuta 2004 Duca Enrico Nero d’Avola (Sicilia)
- Cellar Selection
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- $60
Duca Enrico is one of Sicily’s most celebrated expressions of Nero d’Avola with excellent complexity and compelling notes of licorice, black fruit and spice. It tastes clean and polished and ends on a cooling note of fresh acidity.
— M.L.
(3/1/2009)
Duca di Salaparuta 2001 Duca Enrico Nero d’Avola (Sicilia)
- Cellar Selection
- $50
Nero d’Avola grapes for this flagship wine are picked from alberello-trained vines to make one of Sicily’s most unique and distinctive wines. Instead of the standard ripe cherry and almond paste, here you get a deep, dark green vein with vegetal, rhubarb, herbal notes, chopped sage and fennel and loads of forest berry. Imported by A.V. Imports Inc.
— M.L.
(7/1/2006)
Duca di Salaparuta 2003 Vajasindi Làvico Red (Etna)
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- $15
This historic Sicilian estate presents its first vintage of its newest wine from the volcanic slopes of the Etna volcano. Indigenous grape Nerello Mascalese is blended with a touch of Merlot to achieve a medium-structured wine with delicate and refined aromas of blue flower, black stone, campfire, cherry and small forest berry. The wine is big in intensity and delicacy.
— M.L.
(4/1/2007)
Duca di Salaparuta 2006 Duca Enrico Nero d’Avola (Sicilia)
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- $60
A founding father of Sicily’s quality wine tradition, the 2006 Duca Enrico is a plush and rich red with bold berry flavors and a spicy vegetal touch of green curry leaf. An icon of southern Italian wine, the wine is well suited to roast beef or sophisticated meat dishes.
— M.L.
(4/1/2012)
Duca di Salaparuta 2007 Vajasindi Làvico Nerello Mascalese (Sicilia)
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Làvico is a tight, bright wine that shows an elegant and austere side of sunny Sicily. The wine is redolent of wild berries, cola, dried ginger and light spice.
— M.L.
(4/1/2012)
Duca di Salaparuta 2007 Bianca di Valguarnera Insolia (Sicilia)
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Made with fruit sourced from very old, head-pruned Insolia vines (with extremely low yields), this structured Sicilian white wine opens with a bright, off-gold color and creamy notes of apricot, honey and vanilla. Pair it with Cornish hen or pulled-pork.
— M.L.
(4/1/2012)
Duca di Salaparuta 2009 Bianca di Valguarnera Insolia (Sicilia)
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- $50
Careful winemaking and low vineyard yields make this a classy and sophisticated Sicilian white with a rich, creamy mouthfeel. The wine’s compelling aromas include apricot, almond, yellow candy, pineapple and exotic fruit.
— M.L.
(4/1/2012)
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Prominent Designations [All]
Bianca di Valguarnera
Calanìca Frappato-Syrah
Calanìca Grillo-Viognier
Calanìca Insolia and Chardonnay
Calanìca Insolia-Chardonnay
Calanìca Nero d’Avola-Merlot
Calanìca Nero d'Avola and Merlot
Colomba Platino
Duca Enrico
Kados
Kados Risignolo
Passo delle Mule Suar Marchesa
Tenuta Pisicnolo Isados
Terra D'Agala
Terre d'Agala
Triskelè
Vajasindi Làvico
Vajasindi Nawàri
Most Reviewed Varietals [All]
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