A dry dessert wine broadly similar to an Oloroso sherry, with complex aromas and flavours of toasted nuts, honey and dried fruit.
Grillo, Catarratto, Inzolia, Damaschino
DOC Marsala
750 ml
18%
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This dry Marsala Superiore shares the sweet style's rich colour, but less residual sugar gives a dry wine broadly comparable to an Oloroso sherry. Complex aromas and flavours of toasted nuts, honey and dried fruit make for a very special glassful.
Marsala is one of the world's great fortified wines, made exclusively in and around the town of that name, in the west of Sicily. It is thought to have been created by English wine merchant John Woodhouse, who came to Marsala in 1770. His new style quickly gained traction in the British market, and great volumes were produced, a large proportion of which was sold to the expanding British navy of the time: five hundred barrels a year was Admiral Nelson's famously large order.
In 1969 Marsala was granted DOC status. Its modern incarnations can be made from any combination of ten grapes, including the traditional Grillo and Inzolia and the modern, mass-planted Catarratto. Others include Sicilian specialities Pignatello, Nerello Mascalese and Damaschino.
There are five ageing-related categories for the wines: fine (one year), superiore (two years), superiore riserva (four years), vergine/soleras (five years), and finally vergine/solera stravecchio (ten years). These are complemented by categorisations of the colour and sweetness of the wines: oro, ambra and rubino describe the gold, amber and ruby hue of the wines; secco (dry, at 40g/l), semisecco (semi-sweet, at 40-100g/l) and dolce (sweet, at more than 100g/l) indicate the residual sugar in the end wine.
Please note that we do not deliver to the UK or overseas
Orders of €150+: free delivery in Ireland and Northern Ireland
All other orders: €15 flat rate delivery in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Orders are usually dispatched in the first two working days after receipt.
We cannot guarantee delivery on a given day. If the delivery date is important, please let us know, and we'll put one of our 'Not to Be Opened Before' stickers on the box and aim for delivery a day or two early.
Your orders are delivered by courier to ensure fast and reliable delivery of each carefully packaged consignment. Because nobody likes breakages, we use very strong and secure packaging specially designed to protect wine bottles.
Pulpsafe boxes are recycled, recyclable and very strong
Personalised champagne orders are dispatched to anticipate your requested deadline (see above), or otherwise as soon as possible. Please allow at least one extra working day for these orders to be prepared.
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Our couriers do their best to deliver and often have amazing local knowledge, but in the event of difficulties a reliable telephone number for the recipient makes all the difference and is a required piece of information. A mobile number is usually best.
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When we dispatch your order, we send on a tracking code so that you can follow your order in transit on the courier's website.
Delivery outside Ireland
If you need delivery to Northern Ireland, our €15 standard rate applies, with orders of €150 and more travelling free—for the time being.
We do not generally send wine overseas because of the complicated bureaucratic requirements and very high cost. If you would nonetheless like more information about deliveries outside the island of Ireland, please ask.
Returns
Faulty bottles
Wine is a natural product: its variety is what makes it so interesting!
Sometimes, though, a faulty bottle turns up. It's rare, but it does happen.
We want you to enjoy the wines you buy from us, and we'd like you to enjoy doing business with us too.
If you are unlucky enough to receive a bad bottle, please let us know immediately by calling the office on 021 431 6000 and we'll arrange a replacement or issue a credit in compensation.
Broken or Damaged Deliveries
Despite our best efforts to wrap and pack securely, damage in transit occurs from time to time.
If there's a breakage, our couriers will normally return the whole fragrant mess to us straight away.
If, however, the damage isn't apparent until you open the box, we'd still prefer to have the whole parcel collected. We'll send you a replacement as soon as possible.
Pulpsafe boxes are recycled, recyclable and very strong
