AZIENDA AGRICOLA ALBANA LA TORRE

About Winery and Wines

Liguria is like a crescent set on the sea. The luminous Tyrrhenian blooms its shores, the Alps and the Apennines - which stay close to it - protect it from winds and invasions. This long, narrow, arched strip of earth, green of palms and olive trees, with colorful houses, scented of flowers, oranges, jasmine and salty, where the most tasty fruits ripen, where the vineyards on the rocks climb between pines and cypresses, where soft hills alternate with rough and steep riviere, is only apparently a continental region contiguous to Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia and Tuscany: indeed it is an island. (A. Morassi, Through Italy -T.C.I.- Milan 1949).

The arrival of DOC certifications, first of all in 1973 the one CINQUE TERRE and CINQUETERRE SCIACCHETRA 'as well as the continuous research of quality over the quantity, increased the number of companies, albeit small in size: many young people have embarked on this road as a choice of life, bringing renewal and energy to the whole sector, well aware that, as of today, agriculture also means conservation of the land as a cultural and environmental heritage. The farm is located at the eastern end of NATIONAL PARK OF CINQUETERRE, near the village of Campiglia. It extends over an area of ​​over 2.5 hectares, grown in vineyards and olive groves within a larger property (the valley of Albana) belonging to the same familiy for four generations. It is the only producer of SCIACCHETRA 'and WHITE WINE CINQUETERRE D.O.C. in the municipality of La Spezia.