Florio Vecchioflorio Dry Grillo Italy White Dessert Wine

Priced from $14.49 to $21.99 across the five stores we checked in September 2026, this bottle carries a long name. Grillo is the grape named, and Dry sits in the name too, a description that, as the producer's own materials below explain, means something more specific than a still white wine.

The steadier fact is the maker. Florio says the winery was built by Vincenzo Florio, its own founding history rather than a note about this particular white.

Italian wine comes from places as different as northern mountains and southern islands, so the word Italy names a country rather than a single taste, and a narrower designation or a word from the producer would be needed before describing a particular place. The producer places its winery in Marsala, in Sicily, and, as the next paragraph shows, Marsala turns out to be this wine's own designation too, not just the winery's address.

Cantine Florio's own product page identifies this bottle by a fuller name than the grape alone suggests: VecchioFlorio, a Marsala Superiore Secco, a fortified wine from Marsala, not a still varietal Grillo. The producer's history page explains the connection: Grillo is the grape behind Vino Florio, the base wine that, once fermentation finishes, is combined with alcohol and, for the Superiore category, with mistelle or cooked must, a step the producer calls the wine “falling in love”, its term for fortification. By the producer's own classification, a Marsala Superiore ages in oak for at least two years, and Secco marks the driest style, with residual sugar from that added mistelle running up to 39 grams per litre. The producer describes the finished wine's character as combining hints of bitter almonds and raisins, typical of Marsala, with notes of spices and vanilla, its own words.

Our call: this suits a shopper who already reaches for Marsala in the kitchen or at the table; Cantine Florio's own classification places this bottle as a Marsala Superiore Secco, aged at least two years in oak, with the bitter almond, raisin, spice and vanilla character the producer describes as typical of the style. Pass if you came for a table white built from the Grillo grape alone; despite what the name suggests, this is a fortified wine, not a still varietal Grillo, and no shopper rating has reached our record to confirm how it lands with buyers.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.