The best wineries in Messina.
The Mimmo Paone farm was created in the 50s. The art of making wine has become a tradition that, from father to son, continues today and is enriched by year. Run by the owner Mimmo Paone and their children, Fabio (technical director), Simone and Donatella (sales managers), it boasts a first class curriculum. Present on the European market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic) for 15 years, occupying the segment of the small distribution, produces approx. 300,000 bottles per year with DOC and IGT marks. In effect, in its product portfolio includes wines that have created the history of Messina and Sicily, including Malvasia delle Lipari DOC, Faro DOC and Mamertino di Milazzo DOC, which produces in its own vineyards of Castanea delle Furie (ME) and Condrò (ME).
The Mimmo Paone farm, this month, with launch a novelty to try as much as possible to introduce his products to all citizens of the area, creating the first store of 1,000 square meters, where you will have the opportunity to taste and buy up to eight types of new wine (bulk).
The company has become a reference point for the sale of wine, giving an opportunity to all those who, for various reasons, do not have the space to transform must into wine, to buy it (it was must, now it is wine) and keep it at home.
Mimmo Paone, always attentive to the economy of its products, manages the sale of bulk wine, directly in the winery, to keep the price unchanged from the producer to the consumer. In addition to the new point of sale in Condrò (ME), you can watch the gentle winemaking process: from the hopper to the stemmer, from winemakers to pneumopress and from bottling chain to French oak barrels.
To those who have a VAT number and all those who come from the Aeolian Islands, the company makes an additional discount on the actual selling price. The oenologist Mimmo Paone from Wednesday, November 11th, invites all friends of the wine industry, operators of FISAR, ONAV, AIS, restaurateurs, wine barmen and all lovers and fans of good wine, to taste together new wines 2009 and not only!
Carlo Hauner, from Brescia but of Bohemian origin, arrives for the first time in 1963 on the Aeolian Islands and, in love with the land, in the 70 ends up moving to Salina. There, he falls in love at first sight for the second time: Malvasia, an ancient grape variety (we have evidences of its presence in the area already from the first century BC), sweet and fragrant that Aeolian farmers harvest in mid–September, when arrived at full maturity, and that for two weeks is left to dry in the sun, refining a technique remained almost unchanged over the centuries. The result is what Dumas defined as the most outstanding wine that he had tasted in his life. After a careful observation of the local wine tradition, integrated with the study of ancient and modern texts, Hauner has been able to recover some twenty hectares of land and turn them into a vineyard. There, on the terraces retrieved from the local agricultural tradition, he began producing its Malvasia, with some innovations: grapes is let to wither on the vine and directly experiences a cooling technique during fermentation. Small touches that make that his wines end up on the tables of the best restaurants around the world. In the 80s a new winery and a new wine were created: Salina Bianco, Salina Rosso and Antonello. After the death of Carlo Hauner, the company was taken over by his son (pictured), who carries on its name and its philosophy: to produce a genuine and complex wine but, above all, terribly good.
In a beautiful Villa of the eighteenth century in Sicily, the Palari Farm has resumed the production of this ancient and noble wine with the aim of finding, with the help of modern techniques, the quality that made Faro famous in the world.
In the district of Palari, in S. Stefano Briga in Messina, our vineyards extend, planted with native grapes with names as old as fascinating for what they evoke: Nerello, Nocera, Cappuccio Tignolino, Core ’e palumba, Acitana, Galatena, Calabrese, and others. All grapes that belong to the specification for the production of the DOC FARO.
The vineyards face south–east, with a considerable slope with sapling plants, which therefore involves a manual harvest with baskets of 20 kilos, with an average gradient of 78%. The microclimate is unique, as in less than 5 km of altitude it goes from 0 to 450 meters above sea level, Precisely this climate and the strict selection of grapes allow us to obtain less than 1 kilo of grapes per plant.
The soft crushing, fermentation at controlled temperatures, aging in oak barrels and then aging in air conditioned rooms, make possible the creation of this wine of ancient tradition.
We grow only native vines such as Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Nocera, with an age ranging from 6 to 50 years and more.
We carry out a strict natural agriculture to preserve the native flora and fauna; we do not use chemical fertilizers but only an annual green manure of legume sown in the autumn, in order to give a natural organic matter; we do not use herbicides and insecticides, but only low doses of copper and sulfur for the pest management.
Our philosophy is to preserve and respect the environment in which we live, becoming aware of the context in which we develop our vineyards and giving in this way to every single plant the opportunity to give the best of itself; only in this way we allow our wines to be a true expression of the land.
The Vasari farm, located on the hills of the Santa Lucia del Mela town of art, in the province of Messina (300 meters above sea level), is a production reality existing for over 400 years: certified as organic since 1990, which still today produces one of the wines historically among the most ancient in the world: Mamertino DOC, the wine preferred by the emperor Julius Caesar who, already at that time, considered it among his four favorite wines, so much that he offered it to his diners to toast to his third consulate (46 BC). The Vasari company represents the recent history of the Mamertino wine, that for over 40 years has been the first to point to his revaluation making of it a trademark until 2003. Today, as then, Vasari Mamertino DOC is the showpiece of this DOC both in Italy and in the world, today in the TOP HUNDRED of Italian wines (ranked among the top one hundred Italian wines of 2013), as witnessed by various wine experts and by reviews of the wine industry (Luca Maroni, Veronelli, Bibenda AIS Guide, Il Mio Vino).
All our wines are produced with grapes of native Sicilian vines, grown with organic methods of cultivation. White Mamertino is a blend of Catarratto, Inzolia and Grillo; while with red grapes two types of Mamertino are produced: Mamertino Nero d’Avola in single–variety and Mamertino Rosso. This latter is a blend of Nero d’Avola and Nocera. Nocera is the typical grape variety grown only in the Province of Messina, a grape variety that characterizes and makes unique Mamertino Rosso. Of each type of Mamertino, reserves are produced, that come to light after aging for 2 years in oak barrels of 25 hecotliters plus at least 6 months of aging in bottle before release. All great wines of superior quality are the 6 types of Mamertino DOC produced by the Vasari company with organic grapes of Sicilian native varieties, with excellent value for money and, in accordance with the principle of the protection of consumer health, with very low content of sulphites. All our wines are also suitable for coeliacs and vegetarians/vegans.
Sicilian excellences of unique and authentic flavors are produced in respect of the environment and tradition but with innovation. Not to be missed. Why? Life is too short to drink mediocre wine.
WHEN YOU DRINK VASARI MAMERTINO DOC WINES YOU SAVOR QUALITY AND HISTORY IN THE GLASS.
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Corso Sicilia, 61 98040
Torregrotta (Messina)
The Mimmo Paone farm was created in the 50s. The art of making wine has become a tradition that, from father to son, continues today and is enriched by year. Run by the owner Mimmo Paone and their...
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Via Umberto I 98050
Santa Marina Salina (Messina)
Carlo Hauner, from Brescia but of Bohemian origin, arrives for the first time in 1963 on the Aeolian Islands and, in love with the land, in the 70 ends up moving to Salina. There, he falls in love...
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C. da Barna 98100
Messina (Messina)
In a beautiful Villa of the eighteenth century in Sicily, the Palari Farm has resumed the production of this ancient and noble wine with the aim of finding, with the help of modern techniques, the...
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loc. Faro Superiore 98158
Messina (Messina)
We grow only native vines such as Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Nocera, with an age ranging from 6 to 50 years and more. We carry out a strict natural agriculture to preserve the...
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Contrada Moreri Soprani 98066
Patti (Messina)
Via Medici 136 98076
Sant'Agata di Militello (Messina)
Via F.lli Mirabito 41 98050
Malfa (Messina)
Contrada Corso 98100
Messina (Messina)
Via Torretta Forno 103 98071
Capo d'Orlando (Messina)
Viale Milite Ignoto 29/31 98051
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Messina)
Contrada Casale, 1 98046
Santa Lucia del Mela (Messina)
The Vasari farm, located on the hills of the Santa Lucia del Mela town of art, in the province of Messina (300 meters above sea level), is a production reality existing for over 400 years:...
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Via Del Bufalo 20 98123
Messina (Messina)
Via Militare Ritiro 23 98100
Messina (Messina)
Via Nazionale 40 98050
Malfa (Messina)
Via Albero 5 98057
Milazzo (Messina)
