Tenuta di Castellaro

Tenuta di Castellaro is one of a handful of artisan Sicilian producers of the I Vigneri consortium, under the tutelage of esteemed enologist Salvo Foti. To be exact it is the only Lipari producer.

Salvo Foti made his mark at the Benanti winery where he and Giuseppe Benanti are credited with rescuing the native Etna varietals and introducing low intervention Etna wines.

The organic wines of Tenuta di Castellaro stem from the massal and clonal selection of the healthiest and oldest native vines on the Aeolian Islands, to which we pay tribute in the blends we produce. They differ from the typical varietals of Etna and Sicily.

Harvest is done by hand. The vinification process takes place by gravity without the use of pumps in the various racking phases, excluding all forms of mechanized intervention, and fermentation takes place using native yeasts in order to respect and enhance the qualities of the fruit that arrives intact from the vineyard, healthy and rich in all of the quality components typical of a well-executed Etna alberello vine-growing process.