A new dress for Vecchio Samperi and Bukkuram

VECCHIO SAMPERI RETURNS TO THE ORIGIN

With the bottling of 2016, our Vecchio Samperi “returns to the origin”.

This transformation includes some crucial changes. Starting from the bottle. We replaced the classical marsalina (the typical marsala wine bottle) of 50 cl, used from the 90s up to the last version, with a shorter container of 75 cl, nearly identical to the very first bottles used in 1980.

Also the label sees some major changes, as it brings back the strong bond with the ancient Samperi district that gives the name to the first wine of Marco De Bartoli, precisely “Vecchio Samperi”. In the background the ancient family “baglio”, standing for years now on the labels of our marsala reserves and that evokes the original Indian ink drawings made by the artist and friend Carlo Lauricella for the winery. An image that is consistent and unique for all our traditional wines.

The greater change is, for sure, the return to the real nature of Vecchio Samperi whose classification has been modified. It is finally back to what it was originally, that is a wine, or as Marco De Bartoli often said “the wine of Marsala”. The “vino liquoroso” (liqueur wine) mention, compulsory by law, finally disappears and turns into wine, aged in an oxidized environment, never fortified and using the traditional in perpeetuum process, for centuries the only method to create this territorial wine.

The brand new Vecchio Samperi replaces the previous version of Vecchio Samperi Ventennale. The reference to the 20 years, due to the changing of classification, cannot be kept on the label, and the same is for grape variety. By the way, from now on, for every new bottling the vintage will be stated.

BUKKURAM SOLE D’AGOSTO IN A NEW DRESS

From vintage 2013, Bukkuram Sole d’Agosto has a brand new dress bringing with it two main changes.

First of all, the label, which has its image redesigned. The contour of Bukkuram cellar, an 18^th century restored dammuso, the typical farm house on the island, that houses today the production area of our passito di Pantelleria, stands out in the background and is surrounded by our gobelet trained vineyard. This image replace the close-up volcanic stone that appeared on the label since 2011, first vintage of “Sole d’Agosto”. Also the shape of the label reminds the typical farm houses of Pantelleria, while the colours used are the classical ones: white, black and bronze.

The other big change is the bottle capacity, that pass from a half a liter to 75 cl, and its unusual shape that, once again, reminds the typical dammusi.

It is not just a matter of dress, because the new bottle want to be identified even more with the beautiful territory of Pantelleria, its traditions and grandeur.

A shorter bottle, with rounded shoulders, inspired to the dammusi‘s dome shaped roofs, the typical buildings made of volcanic stones that make so peculiar Pantelleria and its landscapes.