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| THE PLACE Santa Ninfa - located between Segesta, Aliciae and Selinunte, offers visitors the chance to enjoy a natural environment dedicated to vineyards and olive grooves. This area is also rich of woods, such as Finestrelle, which houses an ethno-anthropological museum. At few hundreds meters, there is the old castle of "Rampinzeri", recently restored. This was Luigi Arias Giardina's feud, a marquis who in 1605 founded the settlement of Santa Ninfa on "Three Hills" (Castello, Croci and Rocche). Unique of its kind is the karst cave of Santa Ninfa, rich of bizarre concretions, gypsum crystallisations - a paradise for naturalists and speleologists. Originally inhabited by the Sycans and the Elyms, followed by Phoenicians and Greeks who introduced grape cultivation, the Romans spread Sicilian wines throughout their Empire, considering them the best wines of that time. THE COMPANY To this breeding ground of old civilizations belongs the history of the "Cantina Sociale Santa Ninfa", founded in 1962 as a farming co-operative, by 13 wine growers. Year by year, thanks to its strategic position, the company has become the reference point of the local wine growers. Today the co-operative counts more than 800 members, many belonging to other areas. In Gibellina and Salemi, for example, grapes are grown in a 1.500 hectare land: black and white grape plants are grown as trees or at espalier in varieties such as Catarratto, Grecanico, Inzolia, Nerello Mascalese, Sangiovese and Nero d'Avola. Most part of the grapes harvested by the members comes from vineyards cultivated according to the CEE regulation n. 2078/92 A1 (sensible reduction of pesticides) and A2 (biological production). The transformation of grapes in white, red or rosè wines is performed with sophisticated and modern machinery, using the most appropriate techniques. In this way the products are very genuine and meet the customer's needs. |
