Our project, of wine and life, took shape in July 2017 when, after a long search, we identified two hectares of old vineyard a few steps from the Alcantara river. We are at the foot of Etna, just under five hundred meters above sea level and less than fifty steps from the ancient Cuba of Santa Domenica, a Byzantine gem of rare and intact beauty. Arriving here, on a torrid summer day, a warm wind swept away, in a few moments, doubts, uncertainties: this was the locus amoenus we were looking for, the right place to make our wine. In the following years we dedicated ourselves to expanding the company with new vineyards whose fruit will be the matrix of new wines. Our story is still unfolding, where the beauty is that there is still much to do. There are three of us who are the protagonists of this project: the narrator, officially Giulia Monteleone, my father Enrico, and my partner Benedetto Alessandro, who is a winemaker by profession. Ours, in fact, is not a family business, but simply a family: the care of the vineyard, the production of wine have entered so forcefully into our lives that we can no longer draw a line of demarcation between life and work. Our vineyards are located on the North side of Etna, located in two different districts: Cuba and Pontale Palino. There are great differences in terroir between one district and another, hence the decision to vinify each parcel separately: each label is therefore an expression of a single vineyard. In Contrada Cuba the vineyard hectares are two: about one and a half hectares are cultivated on a trellis and date back to 1970; the remaining five thousand meters are instead raised on a tree, the typical form of Etna vine cultivation, and date back to 1935. The grapes are the native Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio, with small percentages of Alicante. In Contrada Pontale Palino, about 700 meters above sea level, we own just under three thousand meters of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera tree, whose immense genetic heritage we aim to defend in the future