White Wine Largasia Inzolia and Chardonnay IGP Sicilian Lands. The Quignones Winery was born with the desire to rediscover the true flavors of wine, sip by sip, getting our shoes dirty in the vineyard, smelling the grapes growing in the vineyards. Every single secret of the fields is unveiled, the aromas of wood, must, hands worn from work, and the family voices surrounding each plant. A wine made with love and passion, the bottles do not come into being just to follow a simple trade. It takes time both to prepare and to taste it: this is the magic that drives the winery, with effort and dedication, to create enchanting wines. Packaging: 1 bottle of 0.75 lt. Grape variety: 50% Inzolia, 50% Chardonnay. Alcohol content: 12.5% vol. Technical characteristics: classification: Protected Geographical Indication - Sicilian Lands. Variety: Inzolia – Chardonnay. Production area: Sant’Oliva district – Licata – Agrigento – Italy. Altitude: 150 m above sea level. Vineyard exposure: southwest. Climate: mild winters, warm and slightly rainy springs and autumns, very hot and dry summers. Average age of vineyards: 12 years. Yield: 75 quintals of grapes per hectare. Training system: guyot. Planting density: 4000 plants per hectare. Vinification and aging: the grapes are destemmed without crushing and immediately pressed gently. The must is then sent to fermentation which lasts about 15 days at temperatures between 15° and 18° until completion. Alcohol: 12.5% vol. Organoleptic characteristics: color: straw yellow with barely perceptible greenish reflections. Aroma: fruity with notes of pear and citrus. Taste: fresh, balanced with the right acidic note. Serving temperature: 12°. Food pairings: dishes based on naturally cooked fish on the grill and also with steam. Contains sulfites. Since 1800, we cultivate excellence. The Quignones Winery comes to life thanks to the passionate and kind work of Alfredo Quignones, who carries on a project started by his great-great-grandfather in the 1800s, aiming today for the production of natural wines that offer a different expression of Sicily, through the use of rare grape varieties and particular methods of vinification and aging. We are proudly small, we produce wine and extra virgin olive oil, tied to traditional practices such as rigorous hand harvesting and the patient aging of wines. Our wines are the result of a love story: that between the hills where our vines ripen and the sea. One facing the other for centuries. The hill, cloaked by the sun and superb nature, sighs gazing at the immense sea; it watches her from afar, blowing a breeze, sometimes sweet, sometimes strong, filled with its scent. Ancient landscapes that extend over more than 100 hectares in the most authentic and less known Sicily, lands filled with millennia of history, belonging to the Quignones family for over 2 centuries. To make a good wine takes time. We bottle it for work, so that you can enjoy it, summing our time with yours: perhaps this is the magic that a bottle of wine can create. There are no secrets; it is just love, nature, time, and effort. Over two centuries of history and good family traditions. It was Baron Raffaele Quignones, great-grandfather of the current owner, who purchased the vast estate known as Tenuta d’Apaforte. In this enchanting setting, characterized by ancient olive trees, large almond groves, and particularly calcareous soil, a vineyard found its place. There, the grapes of an intense violet color, with the typically loose bunch, called Calabrese, were always produced. But as time went by, when the almond groves gave way to vineyards, it was discovered that the precious Nero d’Avola inhabited those lands. Today, Alfredo Quignones follows in his father's footsteps, who in the early 1970s decided to convert part of the company specializing in grape cultivation, carrying on a tradition that has now become secular. And so the ancient pergola systems were converted into long rows of trellises that host the grape varieties Nero d’Avola and Inzolia, alongside varieties such as Chardonnay, Fiano, Syrah, and Petit Verdot, thus promoting the excellences symbolizing the Mediterranean territory. All the shades of unspoiled nature, in a glass of wine. The hundred hectares of our lands, predominantly calcareous in nature, extend in southern Sicily, more precisely in Licata, in the province of Agrigento. Our vineyards rise at the foot of the hill of Sant’Oliva and extend up to its peak, overlooking the vast plain of Licata, which continues to the sandy Mediterranean coasts. Exposed to the Southwest, the plants enjoy the warmth of the sun for most of the day. Furthermore, due to their proximity to the sea, they are constantly refreshed by the light sea breezes typical of the Mediterranean, giving the grapes truly special characteristics.
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White Wine Largasia Inzolia and Chardonnay IGP Sicilian Lands. The Quignones Winery was born with the desire to rediscover the true flavors of wine, sip by sip, getting our shoes dirty in the vineyard, smelling the grapes growing in the vineyards. Every single secret of the fields is unveiled, the aromas of wood, must, hands worn from work, and the family voices surrounding each plant. A wine made with love and passion, the bottles do not come into being just to follow a simple trade. It takes time both to prepare and to taste it: this is the magic that drives the winery, with effort and dedication, to create enchanting wines. Packaging: 1 bottle of 0.75 lt. Grape variety: 50% Inzolia, 50% Chardonnay. Alcohol content: 12.5% vol. Technical characteristics: classification: Protected Geographical Indication - Sicilian Lands. Variety: Inzolia – Chardonnay. Production area: Sant’Oliva district – Licata – Agrigento – Italy. Altitude: 150 m above sea level. Vineyard exposure: southwest. Climate: mild winters, warm and slightly rainy springs and autumns, very hot and dry summers. Average age of vineyards: 12 years. Yield: 75 quintals of grapes per hectare. Training system: guyot. Planting density: 4000 plants per hectare. Vinification and aging: the grapes are destemmed without crushing and immediately pressed gently. The must is then sent to fermentation which lasts about 15 days at temperatures between 15° and 18° until completion. Alcohol: 12.5% vol. Organoleptic characteristics: color: straw yellow with barely perceptible greenish reflections. Aroma: fruity with notes of pear and citrus. Taste: fresh, balanced with the right acidic note. Serving temperature: 12°. Food pairings: dishes based on naturally cooked fish on the grill and also with steam. Contains sulfites. Since 1800, we cultivate excellence. The Quignones Winery comes to life thanks to the passionate and kind work of Alfredo Quignones, who carries on a project started by his great-great-grandfather in the 1800s, aiming today for the production of natural wines that offer a different expression of Sicily, through the use of rare grape varieties and particular methods of vinification and aging. We are proudly small, we produce wine and extra virgin olive oil, tied to traditional practices such as rigorous hand harvesting and the patient aging of wines. Our wines are the result of a love story: that between the hills where our vines ripen and the sea. One facing the other for centuries. The hill, cloaked by the sun and superb nature, sighs gazing at the immense sea; it watches her from afar, blowing a breeze, sometimes sweet, sometimes strong, filled with its scent. Ancient landscapes that extend over more than 100 hectares in the most authentic and less known Sicily, lands filled with millennia of history, belonging to the Quignones family for over 2 centuries. To make a good wine takes time. We bottle it for work, so that you can enjoy it, summing our time with yours: perhaps this is the magic that a bottle of wine can create. There are no secrets; it is just love, nature, time, and effort. Over two centuries of history and good family traditions. It was Baron Raffaele Quignones, great-grandfather of the current owner, who purchased the vast estate known as Tenuta d’Apaforte. In this enchanting setting, characterized by ancient olive trees, large almond groves, and particularly calcareous soil, a vineyard found its place. There, the grapes of an intense violet color, with the typically loose bunch, called Calabrese, were always produced. But as time went by, when the almond groves gave way to vineyards, it was discovered that the precious Nero d’Avola inhabited those lands. Today, Alfredo Quignones follows in his father's footsteps, who in the early 1970s decided to convert part of the company specializing in grape cultivation, carrying on a tradition that has now become secular. And so the ancient pergola systems were converted into long rows of trellises that host the grape varieties Nero d’Avola and Inzolia, alongside varieties such as Chardonnay, Fiano, Syrah, and Petit Verdot, thus promoting the excellences symbolizing the Mediterranean territory. All the shades of unspoiled nature, in a glass of wine. The hundred hectares of our lands, predominantly calcareous in nature, extend in southern Sicily, more precisely in Licata, in the province of Agrigento. Our vineyards rise at the foot of the hill of Sant’Oliva and extend up to its peak, overlooking the vast plain of Licata, which continues to the sandy Mediterranean coasts. Exposed to the Southwest, the plants enjoy the warmth of the sun for most of the day. Furthermore, due to their proximity to the sea, they are constantly refreshed by the light sea breezes typical of the Mediterranean, giving the grapes truly special characteristics.
