The Vini Pappalardo was founded in 1930 in Nicolosi, a small town on the slopes of Mt Etna, where the volcanic soils of the Company’s vineyards located in the Etna DOC region allow the production of wines having an unmistakable and unique taste.

Our Company has chosen to cultivate local vines varieties such as Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio in our vineyards on Mt. Etna.

Our vines trained by the espalier or by the Sicilian alberello (bush) techniques, a favourable pedoclimatic conditions at our fields along with traditional cultivation methods and production techniques confer to our wines organoleptic characteristics, which make them unique and increasingly appreciated even by the most demanding palates.

The Etna wine, in its varieties such as Etna Rosso, Etna Rosato, Etna Bianco and Etna Bianco Superiore, was the first Sicilian table wine to have obtained the “Denominazione di Origine Controllata” recognition in 1968. A consortium named Consorzio di Tutela dei Vini Etna DOC (www.etnadoc.com) monitors that the Etna DOC wine-making requirements are met. Etna wines, representing nowadays one of the most appreciated excellences among Sicilian wines, are the result of one of the most ancient vine-growing and wine-making tradition in the world. Wine has always found on Mt Etna an ideal environment where to grow. The discovery at the volcano’s foot of a wild vine dating back to the tertiary period confirms what had long been known to the ancient Greeks, i.e. that vine exists on Mt Etna since very ancient times.