Cantine Lombardo Marsala

Marsala is a town in western Sicily, famous for its eponymous wine. in 1773 the merchant traveler John Woodhouse "discovered" the wine and made it famous. In 1881, the shipowner Giuseppe Lombardo Maltese came up with the idea of taking the wine all over the world with his ships. However, it would take until 1952 for the family to start bottling its own products. Today the company is run by Orazio and Ermelinda Lombardo.

Marsala is a versatile wine, suitable for desserts, as an aperitif or part of a cocktail. It exists as a dry, semi-dry or sweet wine, in different levels of aging. The grape varieties used are Grillo, Catarrato, Inzolia and Damaschino. Also in the colors there are different expressions of this Sicilian wine. Cantine Lombardo alone offers 7 different varieties.