Gurrieri

Sicily

The history of Gurrieri starts with family passion in the scenery of Sicilian viticulture. Giovanni and Angela, born and raised with the agricultural and peasant passion of father Vincenzo and mother Graziella who have been producing grapes for fifty years, continue the family tradition in Sicily, in Chiaramonte Gulfi, in the province of Ragusa. They began in 2010 with the first bottling.

Gurrieri is in the countryside of the Iblei Mountains, in the fertile Val di Noto, in the area of Cerasuolo di Vittoria, the only Sicilian DOCG. After years of tradition and cultivation to produce wine and oil for family use, Giovanni started modern wine production from the 3.2 hectares of land in the Chiaramonte Gulfi and Mazzarrone countryside and, by locating the areas most suited to the wine production of the district. For each label, small quantities are produced: about 3000 bottles.

Nowadays the family works jointly to produce Sicilian DOCG and IGT wines, cultivates organically and works with native grape varietis such as Nero d’Avola, Frappato, Grillo and Syrah, which is well adapted to Sicilian soil and climate. Giovanni’s father, Vincenzo, Don Vicè, to whom some wines are dedicated, continues his work in the vineyard as a tireless and passionate worker. His mother Graziella is involved in the administrative part of the company and takes care of the family.

All vines grown organically in soils of calcareous origin which give richness and complexity. The ventilated Mediterranean climate, here characterized by important temperature fluctuations, contributes to give the wines strength, vigor, aromas and unique flavors.

The wines are harvested by hand in two passes to obtain the maximum result from different maturations, transported in small boxes to avoid mistreating the grapes, chilled, softly crushed and vinified (with long maceration for the reds) in tanks with temperature control systems. After the malolactic conversion, the wine is placed in wooden barrels or steel tanks where it matures; after bottling, there is a period of bottle aging, necessary to fully express the potential.