Cecile Moscato Organic Cantina Marilina

Grapes: White Moscato
Production area: Municipality of Noto - Contrada San Lorenzo
Grape harvest: Late manual harvest in 10 kg crates max
Maceration: 18 hours
Fermentation and ageing: In 220-litre barriques for 28 months - 6 months in bottle
Bottling: Directly from the barriques

Angelo Paternò arrived in Noto in 2001, after gaining extensive professional experience throughout Sicily. The light and proximity to the sea made him fall in love with the Val di Noto, a region he already knew well from a pedoclimatic perspective.
In 2007 he began the project to build the winery, completed in 2009, realising his original vision shared with his daughter Marilina: wines that he could finally produce himself, characterised by a strong identity and a vigorous connection to the land, emerging naturally from the life cycles without any forcing. For this reason, the existing vineyards covering 25 hectares were preserved, with an additional ten hectares of new plantings, including international varieties now represented by the Currivu white and red.
From the start, Cantina Marilina has focused production on three native grape varieties: Nero d’Avola, Moscato and Grecanico, following and respecting the natural phases of the vineyard.

The Val di Noto - Angelo Paternò has observed - is the sunniest area in Sicily and the second windiest after Trapani. The white calcareous soils are also very important. Nero d’Avola, Moscato and Grecanico are wines with a determined character, thanks to the calcareous soils that allow for good structure and longer ageing, imparting longevity and elegance to the wines. With all these qualities, the raw material is fully utilised. Once the grapes arrive at the winery, everything is transferred to concrete tanks for long macerations to maximise the potential of the grapes. The concrete tanks not only improve maturation but also preserve the product unchanged. Therefore, long macerations, minimal interventions during processing, with minimal filtration and no fining.
Moscato, Grecanico and Nero d’Avola are produced with different nuances to demonstrate that the grape variety is not static but alive and reacts differently. Cantina Marilina firmly believes that Nero d’Avola is eclectic and deserves to be re-evaluated compared to what has been available on the market so far.

The care given to the vines is reflected in the work carried out in the winery and in the final packaging, using recyclable glass bottles, labels made from strictly natural recycled paper, and natural cork stoppers, all in line with the adopted production methods.

Cantina Marilina has been organic since 2001. The existing old vines, now 40 to 50 years old, have been preserved. The vineyard system is traditional, with vines grown alongside fruit trees.
History, like nature, is a great teacher!