Mazzei Zisola Sicilia Noto Rosso 2020

Castello di Fonterutoli is one of the most famous Wineries in all of Italy with an amazing history.  It was acquired by the famous Mazzei family in 1435. Ser Lapo Mazzei is the author of the first known document to use the “Chianti” denomination in 1398; in 1435, when his granddaughter Madonna Smeralda Mazzei married Piero di Agnolo da Fonterutoli, the holding became part of the family’s estate. Since then, for 24 generations, the Mazzei family produces wine at Castello di Fonterutoli. They make some of the finest wines in Tuscany achieving 100pt scores.  In 2003 with the huge potential of making great wines in Sicily, the Mazzei family started a winery calles Zisola with the focus on the Nero d’Avola grape that make full robust reds with glorious rich fruit and supple tannins. The famous wine which they make there and that I bring you today is the Mazzei Zisola Sicilia Noto Rosso 2020 a spectacular example of Nero d’Avola. At our price of $23.99 this is one of the great values in full-bodied Italian red wine. The wine reminds me of Shiraz with Italian flare. Big, rich, round, supple and delicious. Save 31% our price is excellent. Take advantage.

Philip Mazzei, who enjoyed calling himself a “Citizen of the World”, befriended Franklin, Adams, Washington, and Jefferson; the latter invited him to introduce vine growing in Monticello, Virginia. In a letter to George Washington, Mazzei writes that the soil and climate of that region are wonderfully suitable for wine production. Filippo inspired Jefferson with the idea that “All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government”. In his book A Nation of Immigrants, John F. Kennedy himself acknowledges that “The great doctrine ‘All men are created equal’, incorporated in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, was paraphrased from the writings of Filippo Mazzei, an Italian patriot and dear friend of Jefferson”. In 1980 for the 250th anniversary of his birth, Philip Mazzei is commemorated as an “American Patriot” with a stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service.