Passopisciaro – Franchetti Wines

“Etna rises through layers of increasingly colder air to more than the Dolomites; every night this air glides along the black dust to the vineyards and subjects them to a jolt that first paralyzes them, then causes them to distill altered sugars and scents, distorted, deviated that is, from what would come from the normal metabolism of a Sicilian plant.

It is an advantage to make wine in this place that betrays common meteorology and lives ensconced in climatic strangeness; it is a virgin and deserted place where powerful images reign, coming forth from nameless forces. These images are courted for years without allowing themselves to be fully understood, but they can convey a style through winemaking and viticulture, in wines.”

– Andrea Franchetti