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About Winery and Wines
Riofavara is a family-run winery in the Val di Noto area (south-eastern Sicily) in the heart of the region of origin and production of the Nero d'Avola vine. Small in size (16 total hectares) Riofavara is a family-run company, part of a project handed down from father to son. Our winery, in fact, dates back to 1920 and became a wine producing company in 1994 under the guidance of Massimo who took the reins. After years of study and hard experience and values such as passion and dedication, Massimo Padova succeeds in what since his origins has been his intent ie the production of "territorial" wines, expression of the warm ventilated climate and the limestone soil that characterizes this area further south of southern Sicily between Syracuse and Ragusa.
Many of our wines, in fact, bear the name of the territory because they express it from every point of view. Thanks to the use of some of the most recent wine-making techniques in respect of local traditions and the environment, we have adopted the principles of organic and biodynamic farming by taking every possible step to work as naturally as possible both in the vineyard and in the cellar in the respect for local traditions and the environment. Margherita and Clementina Padova, mother and daughter, are most of the times busy with winery visits. They speak 4 languages and are always ready to dispense information on wines together with a smile.