The centrality of wine can be seen from its presence in all the events of life, both civil and sacred.
The consideration we have of wine is so high that thinking of it as a drink or a food would be a sacrilege.
The company that makes wine is unique, it makes moments important, immortalizes them, ignites feelings and passions, calms souls, a good life partner.
Wine is a central cultural and artisanal element in Italian culture and beyond. Wine is drunk, tasted, tasted, wine tells of the people who take care of it starting from grapes, soils, harvests. in Stages on the Path of Life (Kierkegaard) associates wine with memory, remembrance, “the bottling of memory must preserve the scent of experience”.
It tells us about the care and dedication of those who take care of it, it tells us about the passions and emotional state of those who produce it.
In vino veritas, the truth lies in the wine, leaving aside the part of the inhibitory brakes and therefore the person in a state of intoxication lets himself go by revealing even secrets.
Wine is truth, and truth lies mainly in its spirit, in its volatility, in its distillation. Spirit is ingenuity, wit, intellect.
The spirit (even if the wine does not undergo the process of vaporization and condensation) that makes you witty, as well as salt makes you tasty!
The wine: the truth of the senses
The view: the multi-sensory experience that wine gives always deserves to be lived in its entirety, wine is looked at with the same amazement and wonder with which one enjoys a landscape, a sunset or a sunrise. The reflections and notes of color signify a world circumscribed in a chalice, they are the messengers of a land, a time and a space.
Smells and scents: the sense of smell is a secret garden, witness to the intimacy of the interior and the exterior, a synthesis between what is seen and what is heard, an intense and itinerant perception, the ability to let oneself be carried away by olfactory notes breaks every barrier of time and space.
Taste: the contact between palate and wine opens up a world, or rather several worlds at the same time, takes on a four-dimensional form, becomes a forge of information, stimuli and perceptions. Taste makes us find ourselves to the same extent as it makes us lose ourselves, taste makes us believe in what we do not see.
Sicily is the history of wine
The expression of a land is measured by the goodness of its wine, just as the goodness of a dinner is measured by the quality of its wine.
Magna Graecia in Sicily has left many works in testimony of an important civilization, but the legacy that we live every day in every sip is wine.
In the midst of Roman civilization, Sicilian wines were among the finest in the world, and it would seem that Julius Caesar also counted Mamertino among the best wines, which he used in the banquet to celebrate his third consulship. A vine that owes its name to the Mamertines, mercenary soldiers who distinguished themselves during the First Punic War, because they were the ones who planted this valuable vine in the territories of Milazzo.
Christianity, to which wine is one of the most important symbolic and ritual elements, in the Byzantine era particularly refined the winemaking techniques in Sicily.
During the Arab domination, production contracted for obvious socio-cultural and religious reasons.
The Aragonese domination made cultivation resume at full speed and, even more significantly, exports. The consecration of Sicilian wines came in 1800, when the English merchant
John Woodhouse, realized the value of Marsala so much so that he considered it at the height of the most noble Port if not even superior.
