An Englishman in Marsala

'Wine' Roland Mucciarelli
7 min readFeb 27, 2024
Saline at Marsala, source Fondo Ambiente Italiano

In this post I’m going to tell you the story of Marsala and how the British invented it. After many years in which this fortified wine was forgotten, nowadays some Italians winegrowers are starting to produce good Marsalas again, trying to enhance all the characteristics that made it famous since 1773. Marsala is a town in the province of Trapani and it’s famous for its salt marshes (saline), vast marshes of seawater from which salt is extracted

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'Wine' Roland Mucciarelli

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