Tasca d'Almerita Grillo Mozia Fondazione Whitaker
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Two thousand five hundred years ago the tiny island of Mozia, in the Marsala lagoon on the western side of Sicily, was an important outpost of the Phoenician Mediterranean trading network. By the 400 BCE, the Greeks had destroyed the settlement and it was forgotten until the 1800s, when the Whitaker family purchased the island. The Whitaker Foundation dedicated Mozia (aka San Pantaleo) to archeological research and partnered with Tasca dโAlmerita to farm 30 acres of Grillo vineyards on the 100-acre island. The vineyards are organically cultivated in little bushes, using the traditional "Marsalese" pruning method, to shade the grapes from the strong sun and brackish winds. At the end of August the grapes are harvested at dawn and transported on flatbed boats to the mainland for vinification.