Jasmin
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Seafood antipasti, spicy Asian cuisine, herb-crusted baked fish
✨ Technical Specifications
Firriato's Jasmin is an aromatic dry white wine that celebrates the rich viticultural heritage of Sicily through the Zibibbo grape, also known as Muscat of Alexandria. Cultivated in the Borgo Guarini estate in the Trapani countryside, the vines thrive in clay-loam soils under the intense Sicilian sun, tempered by cooling maritime breezes. The name 'Jasmin' is a poetic tribute to the intoxicating scent of jasmine blossoms that drift through Sicilian nights. While Zibibbo is historically famous for sweet passito wines, Firriato vinifies Jasmin as a dry, vibrant white, capturing the grape's exuberant floral and citrus character. Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks and aged briefly on the lees, this wine preserves its delicate primary aromas of orange blossom, citrus, and tropical fruit.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1984 by Salvatore Di Gaetano and Vinzia Novara, Firriato has grown to become an architectural pillar of contemporary Sicilian viticulture. The estate stewards hundreds of hectares across Sicily's most ecologically distinct macro-zones: the sun-drenched, clay-limestone hills of the Trapani countryside (such as Baglio Sorìa and Borgo Guarini), the maritime Quaternary calcarenites of Favignana Island, and the high-elevation volcanic sands of Cavanera Etnea on Mount Etna. Viticulture is entirely certified organic and managed under a pioneering zero-carbon-impact philosophy. In the cellar, temperature-controlled stainless steel vinification preserves high-toned aromatic freshness, tension, and native varietal typicity before selective maturation in stainless steel or neutral wood. Firriato's white wine portfolio champions indigenous and naturalized cultivars—predominantly Grillo, Catarratto, and Zibibbo—yielding benchmark expressions like the saline, maritime-influenced Favinia La Muciara, the organic Caeles series, the floral Jasmin, and the radiant, naturally sun-dried Favinia Passule.
🍇 Grapes
Zibibbo
🍷 ABV
12.5%