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The Wine-cellar and Production. Producing regional, quality wines to span the market.

With the same rigour evident in the production processes as that which the Members deploy in looking after their vines, all the various working and aging phases in the Wine-cellar reflect a productive strategy aimed at promoting quality and a sense of regional identity.

Individual batches of grapes are selected and worked separately on the basis of a harvesting calendar which is laid down by the staff, who take care of the sampling and tasting of the grapes. The technology and equipment used in producing white and red wines have been enlarged with the insertion of two new pneumatic presses to improve the quality of the free run juices (the first must pressings).

As an important and recent re-appraisal of quality wine-making practices, cement vats have been reconverted with the introduction of the cold pressing technology. The construction of two new sets of steel wine-makers and fermentation tanks with a capacity of 150 and 200 hectolitres respectively has been paramount to the improved working practices as it has facilitated the production of wine from small batches of grapes; the latter is selected on the basis of the micro-climatic features of the vines and the organoleptic qualities of the raw materials.

The bottling procedures are also innovative in that they are technologically advanced and capable of maintaining quality control throughout the bottling process. Finally, the use of barriques for aging the top quality wines has also been extended, having been chosen from amongst the tonnellerie (casks) of diverse origins. To the three top-of-the-range wines produced by Viticultori Associati Canicattì - Aynat, Scialo and Calio - two other lines have been added: Aquilae comprises four reds and three whites, and La Ferla includes a red, a rosé and a white.

The winery has mainly made use of the Italian and overseas Food and Beverage Service trade channel (Horeca) and their own points of sales in Sicily, selling under the label of the Viticultori Associati Canicattì.