Tenuta Regaleali estate spotlight
The official Tasca d'Almerita channel presents Tenuta Regaleali, the Palermo estate where Inzolia and Sauvignon Tasca are grown for Nozze d'Oro.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2023 Tasca d'Almerita Tenuta Regaleali Nozze d'Oro Sicilia Sicily, Italy across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $21.13 and the average is $31.69. Our slash is $21.00.
2023 Tasca d'Almerita Tenuta Regaleali Nozze d'Oro Sicilia Sicily, Italy
Count Giuseppe's golden-anniversary white, old Inzolia with Sauvignon Tasca, a 2023 you can open at twenty-three dollars.
The 2023 Nozze d'Oro is 64 percent Inzolia and 36 percent Sauvignon Tasca from Regaleali: citrus, herbs, stone fruit, a saline close, now $21.
A Sicilian white built to outlive the aperitivo script
Nozze d'Oro means golden wedding. Count Giuseppe Tasca made the first vintage to mark 50 years with Franca. The 2023 is still that idea: old Inzolia from Barbabietole for breadth, Sauvignon Tasca from Tramontanata for lift, stainless steel and lees instead of oak. Fresh tonight. Serious enough to keep.
The house
Tasca d'Almerita has farmed Regaleali in Palermo province for generations. Nozze d'Oro is the family white, not an entry cuvee chasing the tourist glass.
The wine
64% Inzolia, 36% Sauvignon Tasca. Cold maceration on the Sauvignon, stainless ferment, no malolactic, 4 to 5 months on lees. 13% ABV.
The scores
Wine-Searcher aggregate 92. Decanter lists the 2023 as a dry, medium-bodied, unoaked Sicilia white.
The drinker
Citrus and salt first. Serve 48 to 52 F. No decant. Pasta con le sarde or swordfish with salmoriglio.
Citrus, herbs, then the salt
Expect nectarine, peach, cut grass, lemon thyme, a little honey, and a distinctly saline close. The Sauvignon Tasca keeps it lifted. Inzolia gives the wine a creamy middle that still finishes dry.
Cool dry winter, a cool very rainy spring, then a hot dry summer. Sauvignon was picked August 31. Inzolia followed on September 18. Grape health was good.
Citrus, nectarine, peach, cut herbs, thyme, a thread of honey and stone.
Medium body, 13% ABV, no oak, lees creaminess, no malolactic, a saline line.
Long, sapid, digestible. Serve 48 to 52 F. No decant.
Two vineyards, two harvests, stainless steel and lees
Inzolia comes from the Barbabietole vineyard, planted in 1972, south-west facing. Sauvignon Tasca comes from Tramontanata, planted in 1998, north-west facing. Sauvignon sees a cold maceration. Both ferment in stainless steel at 16 to 18 C for about 15 days. No malolactic. The wine then rests on lees in tank for 4 to 5 months.
Indigenous yeasts selected from the estate have been used since 2010, tying the ferment to Regaleali rather than a generic cultured strain.
Serve cold, not icy. The saline close and herb line show better around 50 F than fridge-cold.
A golden wedding, and a grape the locals still call Tasca
In 1984 Count Giuseppe Tasca d'Almerita decided a fiftieth anniversary needed a wine that told the family and the estate at once.
The romance is two people and two grapes. Inzolia for Sicily. A white the local growers called the Tasca variety, present at Regaleali since the years after the First World War, later understood as Sauvignon Blanc adapted to this landscape.
Since 2004 the blend has been Inzolia from Barbabietole and Sauvignon Tasca from the estate selection. The wine is bottled after a spring blend and at least a year in bottle.
That is why Nozze d'Oro feels different from the usual island white. It has a family date, vineyard names, and a habit of lasting longer than the aperitivo script allows.
Oil, herbs, fish, a little salt
This white wants brightness, olive oil, fennel, citrus, and blue fish. Pasta con le sarde is the Palermo plate. Swordfish with salmoriglio is the grill plate.
Two plates. One pasta con le sarde. One grilled swordfish with salmoriglio.
Serve 48 to 52 F. No decant. Open as the pasta water comes to a boil.
Pasta con le Sarde
Sardines, wild fennel, saffron, pine nuts, and currants. The Palermo pairing.
Why it works: Fennel and oil echo the herb line. Salt and fish pull the Inzolia breadth forward.
View Recipe for pasta con le sarde (opens in a new tab)
Grilled Sicilian Swordfish with Salmoriglio
Lemon, garlic, oregano, and olive oil on grilled swordfish.
Why it works: Citrus and salt lock onto the wine's saline close. The grill keeps the pairing from going delicate.
View Recipe for grilled Sicilian swordfish with salmoriglio (opens in a new tab)Put Nozze d'Oro in the cart
Regaleali Inzolia, Sauvignon Tasca, twenty-three dollars against a $50 typical retail.
Put six in the cart. This is the Sicilian white for fish tonight and a cellar slot people do not expect from an island bottle.
