Marsala (gro) A museum for the Marsala – in Marsala: The project has already been decisively launched a week before Christmas after thorough preliminary planning. With the museum, which will be set up in Palazzo Fici, one wants to set a monument to the famous fortified wine, which for over 250 years from the far west of Sicily finds its way all over the world, but also to educate about its unique qualities. The Palazzo Fici already houses the Enoteca Communale and the Association “Road of Marsala – Land of the West” (“L’Associazione Strada del Vino Marsala Terre d’Occidente”). It is a popular destination of Sicilian tourists.
Barbagallo: not just for the wider world.
The project of a museum on the history and importance of Marsala should be for the famous wine from the west of Sicily not merely an additional recommendation for wine lovers in the wide world, but to draw more attention to this special product also in the home Sicily, stressed Antony Barbagallo in an interview with the “Giornale di Sicilia”, the leading daily newspaper of the island. Barbagallo is tourism commissioner of the Trapani sub-region, which includes Marsala. He has given a specific mandate to start the realization of the museum project, Barbagallo said.
Daniela Segreto organizes the activities.
Daniela Segreto of the Board of Directors of the Regional Administration is chosen to coordinate the operational business for the establishment of the museum. It is believed to be able to open the museum during the year. The schedule is considered ambitious. One counts on good cooperation with the established Marsala producers and their archives, on the descendants of the Mineo brothers and the Florio family (who, by the way, organized the first car round race in the world with the “Targa Florio” in 1906 on tracks in the mountainous northwest of Sicily 1906, thus 107 years ago). .
The Marsala – from dry to aromatic-lovely.
“Invented” the Marsala was the Englishman John Woodhouse, who had previously been engaged in the production of port wines and sherry. Like sherry, Marsala in its natural state is a dry wine of increased alcohol content. Sweet Marsala is produced by additions, such as a mixture of egg and sugar syrup and other aromatic additions. It is drunk (mainly sweet) as a dessert wine or (mainly dry) as an aperitif. Depending on its quality, Marsala must be stored in oak barrels for years before bottling. Since 1969 Marsala has been granted a protected designation of origin (DOC).