Wineries

Cantine Florio

Florio is one of the historic wineries in Sicily, was founded in 1883 by the entrepreneur Vincenzo Florio, who made build a plant for the production of Marsala wine over an area of 100,000 square meters. Today, as then, wines continue to be produced and aged in the magnificent wine cellars dug into the tuff. The cellars extend over 20,000 square meters and maintain a constant temperature throughout the year approximately 5,000,000 liters of Marsala wine in Slavonian oak casks and typical kegs.

Ferrandes

The Salvatore Ferrandes company is a small family run farm with organic cultivation of terraced land on the island of Pantelleria, where the family, of Spanish origin, has been present for more than six hundred years. The favorable climate, the generous fertility of the volcanic soil and the homemade care of transformations allow to obtain products of the highest quality such as capers, raisin grapes and Passito di Pantelleria.

Donnafugata

Donnafugata was founded in Sicily by the initiative of a family that has over 150 years of experience in wine of quality. Giacomo Rallo and his wife Gabriella, with their sons Jos and Antonio carry out a business project which aims to attention to detail and puts man at the service of nature to produce wines that are more responsive to the potential of the territory. The adventure of Donnafugata begins in 1983 from the Rallo family’s historic wine cellars in Marsala and in the vineyards of Countess Entellina in the heart of western Sicily; Donnafugata arrived in 1989 on the island of Pantelleria, where it began to produce naturally sweet wines.



The wines of Donnafugata interpret Sicily and narrate with passion the sensory universe. The nature of soil, exposure, altitude, climatic conditions and variety are the main variables involved in the production of wines that express in an authentic way their belonging to unique terroirs.

After choosing the combination of vine–land, targeted viticulture «reads» with care and sensitivity the vineyard in its interaction with the environment to bring the grapes at their peak of quality. The frequent tastings of grapes in the field help to find out the perfect time of harvest for each individual vineyard.



The Donnafugata brand argues that enhancing the territory also means preserving its identity and promoting excellence. A commitment that Donnafugata leads through a number of projects in art, literature and solidarity.

Vinicola Italiana S.A.V.I.

Giuseppe Lucchese

Cantina Sociale Saraceno

The Saraceno Cooperative Winery currently has 900 members, who cultivate about 9000 square meters of land planted with vines. The enlargements of the winery have occurred over the years, and nowadays infrastructure improvements are in progress to allow the vinification of best quality grapes.

Orestiadi Vini

The Orestiadi winery takes its name from the Orestiadi Foundation of Art and High Culture. In the winery we use the most modern technologies for the processing of grapes and wine storage. Our continuous commitment to research and development has been rewarded by the many international wine competition awards. Our wines express the perfect balance between traditional Sicilian wine-growing culture on one hand and modern winemaking techniques on the other.

Cassarà

March 2007. The first bottles of "Antonello Cassarà" enterprise are at last on the market to write a new page of the Sicilian wine history.

A dream three generations long : in the early nineties grandfather Rocco began the promotion and marketing of Bianco Alcamo; his son Nicolò started the unbottled wine and concentrated must production.

In 2007 Antonello, agronomist and owner of the firm, realizes the dream: the production of high quality wines, typical of Alcamo Doc area.

Bianchi spa

Serraglia

Baglio Dei Monaci

Tonnino Alcamo

The Tonnino Family has always cultivated its land with passion for the traditions, deep respect for the territory and attention for technological innovation. Nestled in a landscape of rare beauty, at an altitude between 200 and 450 meters above sea level, the Tonnino Estates benefit naturally from the unique features of the local environment which determine the qualitative excellence of a wine. The microclimate is marked by the perfect balance between the light, the presence of appropriated temperatures for the ideal ripening of grapes, and the day-night temperature difference of more than 15°C which provides the preservation of grapes wealth of aromas. The estates cover more than 150 hectares in a terroir which includes as principal characteristics an excellent fertility and a natural quantity of carbonates and microelements helpful for the grapes. All these factors, joint with a microclimate influence of the Belice River that crosses the estates, create a pedoclimatic area and an ideal habitat for the wine cultivation. Research and experimentation both in the vineyard and in the wine cellar are the expression of a trend aiming at excellent quality which manifests itself in the products. The presence and interaction of various environmental, genetic and human resources are all bound together by a single approach: love and passion for the environment preservation. The winery exports red and white wines all over the world, in countries such as Japan, United States, China, United Kingdom, and in the North and East Europe.