Benanti

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi 361
IT - 95029 Viagrande Catania

+39 095 789 33 99‬

info@benanti.it
www.benanti.it


Certification:
Suolo e Salute

Wine-growing region:
SICILY

A key family in Etna's history.
An innovative vision with the goal of producing excellent wines: this is the Benanti credo, a long-established family with Bolognese origins that boasts a centuries-old history. The Sicilian branch of the Benanti family was born in 1734, when a descendant was sent to Sicily by Vittorio Amedeo d’Aosta. At the end of the nineteenth century Giuseppe Benanti began producing wine from local Etna grapes. Since those first vintages, generations of our family have been in love with making wine on the volcano, and we have transformed a passion into mastery for enhancing the peculiarities of indigenous vines in a territory that is indomitable and diverse. The research and creation of authentic wines, capable of celebrating the Etna terroir in its various expressions, have become a distinctive feature of our production.
The Benanti family has been instrumental in Etna’s viticulture throughout history, contributing first hand to its evolution. Now managed by Giuseppe Benanti’s two sons, Antonio and Salvino Benanti, the winery has an annual production of about 250,000 bottles that are distributed throughout the most important markets worldwide.

Established:1988 (initially as “Tenuta di Castiglione”)
First harvest:1988
First bottled vintage: 1990
First wines to market Rovittello Etna Rosso DOC 1990 and Pietra Marina Etna Bianco Superiore DOC 1990, released at Vinitaly 1993