Cantine Barbera

Cantina e Vini

Fare il vino per me è una scelta di vita. Tornata in Sicilia dopo anni trascorsi in un altrove che non mi apparteneva, ho trovato la vigna e il sogno di mio padre. Ho preso questo sogno e ho scoperto che era anche il mio. Vivere a Menfi, sentire l'energia di questa terra bellissima e difficile, provando a capirne l'essenza ed interpretarla attraverso i frutti che ogni giorno ci regala. Essere testimone e custode, preservandone l'integrità, assorbendone la forza e la ricchezza, cercando di trasferire al vino la sua anima. Senza trucchi.

If you want to understand our wines you need to see the ocean: the boundless deep sea, the white, yellow and ochre beach that stretches for dozens and dozens of miles, the beautiful sandy dunes shaped by a fresh breeze, covered with wild lilies and canes and reeds and tamarisks, where small black beetles draw endless doodles, where turtles lay their eggs, where gray herons and all sorts of birds come to rest during their neverending migrations. Vines living so close to the ocean that they can turn sea brine into vibrant tasty salinity. Vineyards that enjoy mild winters and warm dry summers, and amazing temperature ranges between night and day. Ripe berries, tasty and sweet, that smell of sunshine and of a gentle Mediterranean wind. There is the Inzolia, which my grandfather planted in early 20’s and has so well adapted to the sea brine that you won’t believe she could live anywhere else. There are the vineyards that my father brought to Belicello experimenting with international grapes: Chardonnay, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Sauvignon, which you may now look askance, but were the new frontier 30 years ago. And then, there’s what I chose to grow: Perricone, Nerello, Alicante, Nero d’Avola, Grillo. Making wine is my life choice. When I got back to Sicily after years I had spent somewhere else, I found the vineyards and my father’s dream. I took his dream and made it mine.