Blue cheese in Sicily

Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Festive · Romantic

Caravaglio's organic Malvasia delle Lipari Passito captures the pure floral-honeyed character of the grape from the Malfa area on Salina's northern slope, with a distinctive volcanic mineral dimension and slightly more freshness than the Hauner style.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Festive · Romantic

Ben Ryé (Arabic for 'son of the wind') is Donnafugata's flagship Passito di Pantelleria DOC: sun-dried Zibibbo from the alberello pantesco vines on the volcanic island, exported widely through Donnafugata's international distribution since the 1990s.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Funky

Sole d'Agosto (August sun) is the De Bartoli minimal-intervention take on Passito di Pantelleria: zero-sulphur Zibibbo from the Bukkuram estate, producing an almost overwhelmingly concentrated dried-fruit and honey wine with a volcanic mineral dimension absent from other Pantelleria passiti.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Funky

Gabrio Bini's Serragghia is the natural passito of Pantelleria: zero-sulphur, zero additions, biodynamic Zibibbo on volcanic pumice soils producing a wine of wild, unpredictable character and pronounced mineral depth. Small allocations distributed largely through specialist natural-wine importers.