Palmento Costanzo

Palmento Costanzo

A sip of Sicily for dinner with friends can be a modern interpretation in the world. Today you can think about it and even do it, while remaining thousands of miles from the enchanting place, the Etna Park, which became a UNESCO world heritage site in 2013.

Sapling vineyards of Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, Carricante and Catarratto. planted on terraces and enclosed by dry-stone walls of lava stone, on the northern slope of Etna, between 650 and 780 meters above sea level in the district of Santo Spirito, in the hamlet of Passopisciaro of the Municipality of Castiglione di Sicilia. Costanzo Domenico, a former entrepreneur in the field of renewable energy and a building contractor, gave impetus to his company by restyling an old winery.

The "Palmento", preserving the place and the architectural connotations of the tradition of the past during the harvest, with the restoration of the millstone, (floor of unloading of the grapes just arrived in the cellar). He has embraced modernity that supports and facilitates work in compliance with the harvesting and winemaking protocols already in use on the island.

The harvest time, punctuated by the rising of the sun, sees a meticulous and accurate selection of the bunches brought to the cellar and left to be transported by the tape to reach the receiving and mashing tank, placed at the highest level where the Palmento was once, left currently as a plan but diversifying its use, from which the must reaches the containers below for the fermentation phase.

The soils of Etna, however difficult and stressful, prove to be a crucible for the grapes grown, they place the characteristics of their geological nature in the wines formed by brown volcanic sands resulting from the disintegration of lava deposits and rich in organic and mineral substance . And it is precisely here that the expressions of the Doc Etna by Costanzo Palmento are born, extreme and unique wines, recognizable thousands of km from the origin, represented as the Cru Contrada Santo Spirito, Di Sei and Mofete.