Nino Gandolfo: Unique in making the difference!

Nino Gandolfo's winery is located in the extraordinary and unique terroir of western Sicily, more precisely on the southern slopes of the historical city of Salemi, on the 14th May 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi for one day called the first capital of Italy.

The winery was established in the early 1960's by Nino's father Pietro Gandolfo, who from the beginning chose to grow as well international as autochthonous varieties. All these years the Gandolfo wines, full of fine fragrance and flavour, have been synonymous to quality.

In 2004 the company management passed to Pietro's son Nino, who, with unchanged passion, continuously sets out to obtain fantastic and distinctly Sicilian wines, nowhere else to be found.

The extraordinary climate of Sicily, together with the splendid composition of the soils, the appropriate processing of the vines and the grapes, and the skilful treatments in the cellar, lead all together to the creation of wines with unique organoleptic qualities that are more and more appreciated on the national and international market.

Nino Gandolfo, as a human being, is characterized by:

− His unlimited love for Sicily, his land, and his work;
− His ambition to belong amongst the best producers in the wine sector;
− His pride, being aware of its possibilities, conscious in the ability to always improve;
− His patience, still being young but yet with an experience that reaches over 20 years, to always look for the right direction;
− His capacity to think and operate on the long term, not to be seduced by quick (financial) gain;
− His gratefulness to his father, always a reference of strength and wisdom.

To obtain the best results, Nino owns practices like (amongst other):
− On his proper land, he owns the capacity to understand the unique combination between vine, soil, altitude and exposition;
− Obviously he chooses to harvest only by hand, moreover only in the early morning hours, since this is the only way to deliver the grapes in the cellar freshly and healthy;