"Wine is a mixture of light and earthy humors ..."Galileo Galilei
Our wines talk about Sicily
A Cellar
in the heart of south eastern Sicily
The art or winemaking in the past and today
The Feudi del Pisciotto winery has a doubly fascinating soul that tells the ancient story of an old wine-making plant, called “Palmento”, still intact from 1700 to the present day, and the modern cellar that has the capacity to produce about 1.5 million bottles but, to guarantee organic growth, it currently produces about 400,000 bottles divided between 16 labels.
At Feudi del Pisciotto modernity marries tradition also through the honouring of the ancient wine-making process which provided gravity only as an instrument for handling grapes and must: the grapes harvested by hand in the 44 ha. of vineyards, within the Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, are transported in small crates on the panoramic roof of the cellar and, through manholes directly connected to the rooms below, they are transferred to the fermentation tanks without the aid of pumps, thus avoiding dispersing the contents of the husk of the grains. Even the bottling premises are at a lower level than the storage tanks, so as to minimize the use of pumps and thereby also obtaining energy savings and limiting the CO2 emissions in the environment.