Our workers live the territory every day: they know it intimately, respect it, and guard its secrets handed down by agricultural tradition. Ancient knowledge, dedication, and love for the land are poured into every gesture. It is only through this total passion that a truly excellent product can be born.
The unique climate and soil conditions make Etna's grapes and wines unmistakable. At our altitudes, the significant temperature swings between day and night — often exceeding 15°C — favor ideal phenolic and aromatic maturation: they give intensity of color and depth of taste to red grapes, and finesse and delicate aromas to white grapes.
Over 60 years of roots
The volcanic soil, rich in magnesium and potassium, light and naturally draining, offers a perfect balance between acids and sugars. The constant breeze rising from the sea caresses the vines, purifies them, reducing the need for treatments which, when necessary, are carried out only with natural products.
We cultivate all our grapes using the alberello (bush vine) system, respecting the Etna tradition, with an average planting density of 1.20 meters. We produce two symbolic varieties of this territory: Carricante e Nerello Mascalese. The vines from which our Parcel 427 are on average sixty years old: ancient roots that still tell the story of the mountain.
The Carricante, a noble white grape variety, gives life to our Etna Bianco DOC: a wine of lively acidity, great freshness, and intense floral notes, with a minerality that sculpts its character.
The Nerello Mascalese, on the other hand, enlivens our rosés DOC, offering summer fruit fragrances, delicate floral nuances, excellent acidity, and an elegantly mineral finish.
Resilience and Harmony
Among the rows, like a legacy of ancient vineyards, some isolated plants of Minnella bianca and other indigenous varieties also survive. We have preserved them with respect, as a living memory of a time when the vineyard was a small ecosystem of resilience and harmony: a mosaic of biodiversity that, even today, contributes to creating a “natural” blend already in the vineyard, capable of giving balance and depth to our wines.