Olli Grillo DOC Feudo Maccari

Sicily always manages to captivate the hearts of those who think they will spend only a short time here but end up putting down deep roots. This is what happened to Antonio Moretti Cuseri, who at the end of the 1990s, during a trip to the Val di Noto, was literally enchanted by the sight of the famous Sicilian Baroque and its warm sea waters. He fell madly in love, so much so that he decided to start a new venture here. In 2000, the estate was founded in the Feudo Maccari district. In Noto, in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, on the cliffs and beaches of the southernmost strip of land, mound after mound, Antonio Moretti Cuseri managed to assemble a property of about 250 hectares, acquiring it from more than fifty different landowners. The heart is Maccari, where the vineyards overlooking the Vendicari Nature Reserve have already seen about thirty harvests under the sun. Here, Nero d’Avola, Grillo and Syrah grow alongside carob and olive trees, the symbolic plants of the Mediterranean environment. The great French horticulturist and consultant Gilbert Bouvet, who has dedicated a lifetime to vine cuttings and rootstocks, had no doubt that there is no better area than Sicily to cultivate these grape varieties: a magical combination of volcanic soil, sun and constant breezes that keep the bunches healthy, never stressed by excessive heat.