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Lomazzi & WINE COMPANY WINE GLASS FARM BIRGI

Grillo Nero d'Avola
Sirah

The Birgi winery located in the heart of a natural scenery of overwhelming beauty.
gathers the grapes of a production area that stretches between the towns of Trapani and Marsala, in the center of a territory that expands Mozia and between the islands of the Lagoon, to the gently rolling hills of Salem, which reaches 660 meters above sea level.

Since ancient times this land of Sicani , Phoenicians , Elimi , Arabs and Normans boasts an ancient winemaking tradition that has been taken, exploited, renewed and revived by Birgi Cooperative Winery, established in 1960 the willingness of farmers love their land and are proud of their origins .
The spread of viticulture in Trapani, the extension of agricultural cultivated exclusively in the vineyards and the expansion of cultivated land, small property, which became the predominant form of tenure, had momentum in 1773, when the English trader John Woodhouse of Liverpool opened a winery developing trade in Marsala wine.

Marsala, by which the city is famous throughout the world, was produced for the first time this gentleman, who, during a stormy night, having to repair the port of Marsala, had the opportunity to taste the wine produced by local farmers coastal zone of the Lagoon. Finding similar to the Port decide to sell it.
Today the winery has about one thousand members who annually give more than 300,000 tons of grapes from plants magnificent vineyards high quality output, is grown using traditional techniques that a sapling with the latest techniques of mechanized collars. Thus each production area, depending on the cultivar and the product type of processing, the particular climatic conditions, exposure, creates unique products for the organoleptic characteristics.

Processing is the latest step in a process provided by a protocol traceability that covers the entire process, from installation of the screws, the fertilization of the soil, from pruning to harvest, until it has delivered in the cellar, where the grapes are processed under strict procedural standards and advanced technologies . And here the man does the ceremony to capture the essence of the unique flavors of sea, sky and earth that the berries steeped in sun leaves suck.