Innovation
Wines without borders
Mandrarossa is the result of over 20 years of research: expression of a different Sicily, which innovates and experiments. The unexpected side of Sicily.
Innovation
Innovation isn’t only keeping up with the trends. It isn’t what is new that advances. It is, however, a new version of tradition.
Innovation is the ability to pass on ancient treasures over time in new ways.
Innovation is to discover new properties, new characteristics, new aspects of keystones that acquire new value over time.
"For Mandrarossa innovation is researching a new identity for Sicilian wines."
Mandrarossa
Terra viva
Created in 1999 thanks to a study that lasted over 20 years, which led to selecting the best variety/terroir combinations: the ideal habitats that allow each grape variety to fully express its potential.
Our history
Research
Made unique
by experimentations
After founding the Brand, result of years of studies of soil mapping, research continued to be the guiding light towards innovative Sicilian wines. In the territory of Menfi, where Mandrarossa is created, the behavior of other varieties was monitored in 5 experimental fields. Intense micro-vinification activities were carried out leading to the introduction of new wines into the product line over time, some of which, unique for the Sicilian panorama.
The progress
The study of
limestone soils
Mandrarossa’s ambition is great, and starting in 2014 a team of international oenologists, agronomists and terroir experts, launched an important scientific study on the limestone soils, leading to the production of two Contrada wines.
Mimmo De Gregorio and Filippo Buttafuoco, Oenologist and Wine-making expert for Mandrarossa, started, with the support of Alberto Antonini oenology consultant and Pedro Parra specialist in the study of microterroirs, as well as geologists from the University of Palermo, an in-depth research project on the Mandrarossa territory. The results of the analysis showed the great potential of the hillside area, with the presence of limestone parent rock from marine origin, which were the focus of the study. Using electroconductivity tests, a microterroir with a high qualitative potential was discovered in the two selected districts called “contrade”, in which the two best vineyards were chosen from the two best vintages. So far: one Grillo variety (in Contrada Bertolino Soprano) and two Nero d’Avola varieties (in Contrada Miccina) used to produce the white “Bertolino Soprano 2017” and the red “Terre del Sommacco 2016”, the two new Mandrarossa wines presented at Vinitaly 2019.