Guarding the Territory
Guardianship means preserving the land, keeping alive traditions, craftsmen and respecting people. From these values and the love for an extraordinary land like Etna, where the vine has been cultivated by man for more than two millennia, our wines are born. Fruit of the generosity of the warm volcanic soil and its minerality, the cold of the “Muntagna” and the sun of Sicily.
Wines
Expression of a viticulture of ancient mastery, representing the unique Etnean territory.
Around the Volcano
Etna constantly regenerates itself, and causes new life and culture to be generated: frequent eruptions never make it the same as it was, and the same force has the work of the men who persist in inhabiting the Muntagna. Successive lava flows over the millennia have left a varied terrain. As much as we are helping them with our work, the vines must struggle to survive. Some may sink their roots into fertile soil, others find only bare rock. The microclimate is marked by extreme variations; we have cold temperatures in winter, almost Alpine, but in summer the hot Sicilian sun brings us back to the South. And drought is felt in the volcanic, sandy soils. Only with a lot of effort can we retain that little bit of moisture in the soil that allows the plants not to have to give up.
