RED AND IS COMBED BY THE WIND THAT COMES FROM THE
IBLEI, LEANING TO ONE SIDE OF THE ROAD: THE SP 68″
Company
It all started eighteen years ago in Fossa di Lupo. A magical place where the earth, which turns red in the evening and is combed by the wind that arrives from the Iblei, rests on one side on a road: the SP68. A provincial road like many others, but with a special history. It was once made of stone, narrowed to little more than a path; three thousand years ago it connected Gela to Kamarina, as today it ran along the roads of Cerasuolo di Vittoria and from Caltagirone it continued to Catania and Lentini. There, squeezed between heaven and earth, the line of that road also marked the destiny of this company. The first hectare of land, next to the millstone of Fossa di Lupo, was followed by others. The company has also expanded into the districts of Bombolieri, Pettineo, Bastonaca, Santa Teresa, Serra d'Elia, Santa Margherita. A path that we have accompanied step by step, with the awareness that beneath the red sands of Vittoria lay
something rare and profound: layers of limestone, tufa, and gypsum that, over the years, we have sought to let speak ever more clearly through our wines. In Bombolieri, the vineyard stretches and curves over the limestone ridge of the contrada, its vines more than twenty years old, while the courtyard opening onto the cellar seems to capture and hold the full solar energy of the Iblei. Never before have I felt that our path was so consistent, so true to itself. And today, moving through the different contrade all the way to Santa Margherita in Chiaramonte Gulfi, we feel that we carry past and future with us at the same time. Our SP68 is the oldest wine road ever recorded. For generations, farmers walked it to bring their wines to the coast. We see ourselves as guardians of these agricultural landscapes—deeply aware of our farming tradition, yet always with our eyes set on what lies ahead.
THEland
