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“Azisa” Grillo Sicilia DOC 2023 (BIO)
Medium-deep straw yellow colour with a fresh sheen. Fragrant, lively bouquet of lime, orange oil, stone and tropical fruits and sweet spices. The palate is lively and light with a fine salty component, which gives this fresh, delicious white wine its unmistakable character and lovely flow. The animating finish is very Mediterranean with a creamy hint of exoticism, combined with a good acid wire. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Grillo
- Cultivation: biological
- Expansion: 5 months stainless steel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2028
- Closure: natural cork
- Food recommendations
first course of the sea, grilled vegetables - Total extract: 22,18 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,78 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,79 g/l
- Sulfite: 81 mg/l
- pH value: 3,38
- Eco-Control-No.: IT‑BIO‑014
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Zisola” Rosso Sicilia Noto DOC 2022
Zisola, from the Mazzei family winery of the same name in Sicily, is an exceptionally good single-varietal Nero d'Avola. Elegant, bright ruby red in colour with a delicately brightening rim. Ripe wild berries and rose hips on the flattering fruity bouquet, slightly reminiscent of blood orange with a hint of cocoa. Juicy and clear on the palate with savoury red fruit, powerful and soft on the final. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nero d'Avola
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 10 months 30/70 new/used barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Storage potential: 2028+
- Closure: natural cork
- Food recommendations
spicy fish soups, pasta dishes with meat sauce, red meat - Total extract: 30,05 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,81 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,65 g/l
- Sulfite: 89 mg/l
- pH value: 3,45
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Olio Extra Vergine di Oliva Sicilia IGP 2024
Zisola | Mazzei | Sicily
Fresh, green colour with golden reflections and a seductive aroma of herbs and tomatoes. Fruity flavour with a delicate, tart finish. Great value! SUPERIORE.DE
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Filtration: yes
- Closure: twist lock
- Ingredients list
70% Moresca, 15% Ogliarola Messinese, 15% Nocellara Etnea - Note
Please protect from light and heat. - Nutritional Information per 100 ml
- Energy in kcal: 824 kcal
- Energy in kJ: 3389 kJ
- Fat: 91,60 g
- Of which saturated fat : 16,50 g
- Carbohydrates: 0 g
- Of which sugar: 0 g
- Albumen: 0 g
- Salt: 0 g
- Best Before: 10/2026
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“Achilles” Syrah Sicilia Noto DOC 2017
The new red from Zisola is a 100% Syrah in radiant ruby violet. Spicy bouquet with notes of black cherry, cassis, undergrowth and foliage. Juicy, engaging and balsamic on the palate, with prominent tannins and interesting acidity. Subtle hints of cocoa and smoked bacon on the long finish. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Syrah
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 16 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2032+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 32,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,88 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,20 g/l
- Sulfite: 79 mg/l
- pH value: 3,46
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Effe Emme” Rosso Terre Siciliane IGT 2019
This wine - the name "Effe Emme" stands for the initials of Filippo Mazzei - represents a new chapter for Mazzei's Zisola winery and for all of Sicily. Very few producers on the island make a pure Petit Verdot. The Alberello vines are planted on highly calcareous soils. Effe Emme shows a dark fruit intensity with subtle background notes of chalk and crushed minerals. Powerful and full-bodied on the palate, juicy and firmly structured. Only 4,000 bottles are bottled. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Petit Verdot
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 16 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2031+
- Closure: natural cork
- Food recommendations
first courses with game, braised dishes, mature cheese - Total extract: 31,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,81 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,89 g/l
- Sulfite: 88 mg/l
- pH value: 3,50
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Doppiozeta” Rosso Sicilia Noto DOC 2018
100% Nero d'Avola yields a dense ruby-violet colour and a fresh bouquet with rich fruity notes of dark cherries, honey and some grenadine. Doppiozeta unfolds explosively and finesse-rich on the palate, with a velvety tannin and very appealing length. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Variety: 100% Nero d'Avola
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 16 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2030+
- Closure: natural cork
- Food recommendations
roast, heartily spiced braised meat, mature cheese - Total extract: 30,45 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,05 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,82 g/l
- Sulfite: 78 mg/l
- pH value: 3,47
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Grappasessanta” Grappa invecchiata di Nero d’Avola · in gift tube
From the expert hand of master distiller Giovi comes this truly unique grappa. Grappasessanta is produced according to the classic discontinuous method, the distillate then undergoes a one-year maturation in small barrels. The result is a powerful, complex and at the same time soft grappa. SUPERIORE.DE
- Grape Varieties: 100% Nero d'Avola, Ribolla, Moscato, Merlot and Malvasia
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months small wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 60,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Delivery only possible to CH, DE, IS, LI, NO and UK
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The history of the noble Mazzei family is not only closely linked to wine production in Tuscany. The Florentine wine dynasty, which has been active in viticulture for almost 600 years and for 24 generations, also found its unmistakable sense for particularly suitable terroirs in southeastern Sicily. In its third vineyard, after the world-famous Castello di Fonterutoli (Chianti Classico) and the Tenuta Belguardo (Maremma), Zisola, not far from the town of Noto, a UNESCO World Heritage site and famous for its baroque buildings, vineyards in broad bushes alternate with citrus, olive and almond trees.
It is above all thanks to senior boss Lapo Mazzei and his two sons Filippo and Francesco that the family recognised the great potential and added value of this small piece of land in the province of Syracuse, one of the most beautiful and impressive on the island, and selected it for their ambitious project on their tireless quest for new challenges. The Tenuta Zisola has very calcareous skeletal soils. The microclimate is characterized by heat during the day and cold at night, as well as by sea breezes that soften temperature peaks. On the almost 50 hectare large former manor house thrive - without exception grown in the Alberello system - above all Nero d'Avola, the flagship variety of the region of origin, but also in smaller quantities of Cabernet, Syrah and Petit Verdot. Grillo and Catarratto are used as raw materials for the house's only white wine to be produced for the first time in 2014 alongside three red wines.
Marchesi Mazzei, one of the oldest ten family businesses in Italy and one of the most awarded producers in Chianti Classico by wine guides and wine critics, relies on the support of oenologist icon Carlo Ferrini to maintain the vines and work in the cellar. Also in their Sicilian winery the successes were not long in coming. For example, the Zisola 2013 was published by the trade magazine "Wine Spectator" to the list of "Top 100 Wines of 2015" recorded. And Filippo Mazzei was featured by the gourmet journal "gourmets" to "Winemaker of the year 2015" ...and I've chosen the best.
The two idyllically situated cellars of Tenuta Zisola, here called Baglio, are state-of-the-art, so that the grapes can be transformed as gently as possible into high-quality wines. The sanctum of the company, which also produces olive oil and grappa, is equipped with temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks that can hold a total of 1,000 hectolitres. To refine the red wines, cellar master Luca Biffi has around 200 different French oak barriques at his disposal, about half of which are new. SUPERIORE.DE
Facts
- Year of foundation: 2002
- Owner: Marchesi Mazzei
- Oenologists: Luca Biffi and Carlo Ferrini (Consulting)
- Annual production: approx. 120,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 17 hectares
- Conventional cultivation