It was in 2000 when their father, Michele, after a career of over forty years in the wine business, decided, together with his wife Doretta, to start a family owned company, together with his two daughters.
And so the two sisters, coming back home from their careers, ended up surrounded by the family vineyards and wines, facing the new challenge to build a future able to bring back that old dream of making premium wines in Sicily.
It is the strong bond with their territory, especially the High, Medium and Low “whirlpools” (the so-called “Gorghi”), at the heart of an oasis as much as wild as harmonious, which has also inspired the name of the winery. A naturalistic oasis, protected by the WWF since 1998, the one of Lake Preola and Gorghi Tondi which contains a treasure of volatile and aquatic species and a suggestively rare flora.Here, in very peculiar and often unrepeatable environmental conditions, an extraordinary wine is made, Grillodoro, unique in Sicily. Heritage of the family winery since the very beginning, it is a dessert wine obtained from a late harvest of overripe Grillo grapes, attacked by Botrytis Cinerea, the so-called Noble rot, which spontaneously forms in the vineyard overlooking the sea.