A small place but full of creative energy. Bagheria it has always been a center of the world when it comes to art and beauty. Much more than just a municipality east of Palermothe city provided images, colours, faces and bodies to many twentieth century artists: it happens in the canvases of Renato Guttusoin the photographs of Ferdinando Sciannain the writing of Dacia Marainiin the cinema of Giuseppe Tornatore. But it is also the place of Duke of Salaparutathe Sicilian wine company that celebrates its bicentenary this year. In fact, in one of the villas of Bagheria, Villa Valguarneratwo hundred years ago, Giuseppe Alliata Duke of Salaparutathe winemaking adventure that continues today began.
In the nobleman’s summer residence the grapes from the Casteldaccia estates were processed and those conceived and produced were not banal wines. Indeed, we can speak of a precision viticulture ante litteram that will lead the family to create a company capable of competing, in universal exhibitions, with the most famous Bordeaux wines. The twentieth century had not yet dawned and in Sicily there was already someone doing it elegant and refined wines. An exemplary story that represents an important milestone for the entire world of Sicilian wine and that deserves a party where the special guest is Bagheria himself.
Duke of Salaparuta. The restyling of the bicentenary labels
The winemaking group that brings together Florio Cellars, Duke of Salaparuta And Crow he thought of a project capable of creating a strong link between the history and present of this area and which saw the birth of the first wines of the cellar. In the center is the restyling of the bicentenary labels which pay homage to the painting of Renato Guttuso – in particular with his Aspra landscape from 1959 – to the photograph of Mimmo Pintacuda and the art of the Sicilian cart of Emilio Murdolo.
Authentic Italian line
Authentic Italian line
The well-known painter born in Bagheria in 1911 “signs” the Authentic Sicilian line, with the intense blue that characterizes the seaside village of Aspra; the chiaroscuro of Pintacuda’s photography instead dresses the bottles of Le Tenute line with glimpses of a solitary and fascinating Sicily; the Murdolo stretch – famous above all for its Sicilian carts – colours Triskelea new wine project born from the love for Nero d’Avola. In the center of the bottle, Villa Valguarnera is depicted where it all began.
Le Tenute line
Three artists, three sons of Bagheria, who have brought prestige to this eno-cultural terroir and who will also be the protagonists of a documentary which will be presented to the press at the end of June. Some of their works are exhibited in the beautiful Villa Cattolica which has housed the Guttuso Museum for 50 years. A visit made even more interesting, on the occasion of the museum’s fiftieth anniversary, by the expansion of the collection. More birthdays, therefore, to celebrate than for Duca di Salaparuta, as he points out Roberto Magnisidirector of Cantine Florio, Duca di Salaparuta and Corvo “they are inextricably linked to Bagheria and its territory, to the artists who lived between the two great wars, who revealed the inspiring force and beauty of gardens, eighteenth-century villas, coastal landscapes. An identity heritage that combines with a long winemaking tradition and with a new mission: opening up to the territory, enhancing its intangible and material heritage, identifying its future”.
Cantine Duca di Salaparuta – Corvo
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Florio Cellars
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