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Rows of vines at sunrise in the Salto del Corvo vineyards on Mount Etna
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SALTO DEL CORVO

Between Monte Ilice and Monte Gorna, in Trecastagni.

Where we are

Between two ancient craters

Monte Ilice & Monte Gorna

Trecastagni sits on the south-eastern side of Etna, and our vineyard lies in the corridor between Monte Ilice and Monte Gorna, two extinct cones that shape the exposure, the wind and the light on these rows. It is a fragmented landscape: a few hundred metres change the soil, the altitude and the hour the sun leaves the slope.

The place
The vineyard below an extinct volcanic cone between Monte Ilice and Monte Gorna
Vineyard rows climbing the volcanic hillside of Etna's south-eastern side

02 — The Place

A fragmented mountain

On Etna, plots a short walk apart give different wines. Altitude, exposure and the age of the lava underneath all move, and so do the growers reading them. That variety is what first drew us here, and what we work with.

700m+

Vineyard altitude on the south-eastern slope

Volcanic

Free-draining soils formed from Etna's lava and ash

Day / Night

Wide thermal shift at altitude, preserving acidity and aroma

Two cones

Monte Ilice and Monte Gorna shaping exposure and airflow

The place

A young wine company in Trecastagni, on the south-eastern side of Etna, working between two extinct craters — and between the people, markets and cultures that Sicilian wine can reach.

The vineyards, through the season

New spring shoots on a vine in the Etna vineyardRipening white grape cluster on an old vineView across the vineyards towards Mount EtnaGrape bunches hanging from a gnarled old vine trunkRainbow over the dirt track leading into the vineyardStone farm building at the edge of the vineyard rows
The place

Why we exist

To preserve and interpret what is distinctive about Sicilian wine and culture, and to build contemporary ways of sharing it beyond the place where it comes from.

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