Summer Bliss from Domaine de Marquiliani
Anne Amalric
© Gail Skoff
Anne Amalric
© Gail Skoff
Summer Bliss from Domaine de Marquiliani
Most of the action in Corsica—speaking in terms of wine, anyway—centers around the rugged Cap Corse and Patrimonio in the north, the rocky western coast including Calvi and Ajaccio, and the southern stronghold of Figari. The eastern coast, from Bastia south, is relatively flat and densely populated. However, about midway between Bastia and Porto Vecchio, there is an intensely green, lush, and mountainous region. This area is home to Domaine de Marquiliani, and to some of Corsica’s finest rosé and olive oil.
Anne Amalric took over the family domaine over twenty years ago and decided to start from scratch. She replanted her vineyards to Sciaccarellu almost exclusively for the production of rosé, built a moulin, and planted olive trees. Her wonderfully complex terroir of schist, granite, and galets roulés (alluvial riverbed stones) produces some of the most ethereal rosés you’ll ever taste. And the olive oil—well, it isn’t easy for us to get as excited about olive oil as about wine, but when you taste these, you’ll understand why they have become Corsica’s pride and joy.
The Fruitée Douce is a blend of two olive varieties of Tuscan origin, Ghjermana and Leccio. Of the three below, it is the softest and most tender. The Fruitée Sauvage is a pure Sabine, intensely Corsican, and so unusual that she is denied the AOC. This particular olive has a tendency to soak up all of the aromas of the local maquis, making it incredibly aromatic and complex in flavor. She crafts her third olive oil from Ghjermana exclusively, the result of which is somewhere in between the spicier “Sauvage” and softer “Douce.”
These olive oils are full of character and flavor. Do yourself a favor and make a salad or two from early summer bounty, drizzle them with Anne’s olive oil, and open up a bottle of her fresh-as-a-Corsican-breeze rosé. You’ll find it hard not to be in a good mood.
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