The History of Wine in Cerasa

The Fief of Cerasa, once covering 500 hectares, was mainly dedicated to the cultivation of cereals and livestock farming, while vines were grown only to produce wine for family consumption.

During the First World War, my great-grandfather, to avoid the pressures and the raids related to the black market of grain, decided to expand the production of wine grapes, transforming part of the building into a cellar. Unfortunately, this was destroyed by the Belice earthquake.

Since I was a child, my grandmother, with her stories, has always fueled in me the dream of returning to produce wine in Cerasa.

After my grandparents, the reins of the farm passed to my father, Leoluca Guccione, who continued to cultivate the vineyard, selling his fruits to small winemakers. The latter kept alive the tradition of home-made wine, intended for personal use. One aspect that has always struck is the renowned quality of the grapes of the area, so much so that buyers came even from Calabria. Many of them were people who, in the '60s and '70s, had moved to the city in search of a better future, but who continued to keep alive the ancient food traditions.

"In biodynamics the farmer must have an approach that we can define as artistic, that is the ability to feel what is really necessary for his vineyard"

Francesco Guccione

Tradition and Biodynamics

In 2005 we officially resumed vinifying our grapes, driven by the deep conviction that we were in a territory with a high vocation for winemaking. This intuition was soon confirmed by Trebbiano, which, just two years after the first vinification, obtained the highest recognition from the renowned Gambero Rosso guide.
For some years now, I had begun to combine the agricultural practice handed down by my father with studies, readings and experiences related to biodynamic agriculture. A decisive moment was my participation in a meeting with Nikolai Fuchs. For the first time, I heard about agriculture not as a dry, cold and inaccessible science, but as something intimate, familiar, capable of resonating deeply within me. It was the agriculture that I had always felt and lived since I was a child.