Origin: Sicily, Italy
Grapes: 100% Grillo

The grapes come from Santa Ninfa and Pietrarenosa down the valley (250m) on clayey soils. Alessandro points out that grillo is a strong variety which adapts easily to drought and consistently delivers quality and quantity. Vines are 15yo, grapes were harvested early September at 40hh and directly pressed. It was fermented and aged in stainless steel before early bottling in January with 20mg/l SO2 added. This is the azienda’s flagship, fruit forward with lovely pear skin bitters, it is joyful, fresh, lifted by a citrusy and salty finish. An extremely smashable wine.

Alessandro Viola was fascinated in wine from an early age. The idea that nothing needed to be added or taken away from the wine if the grapes, soil and winemaking was exact and done well was drilled into him by his grape growing father.