Tasca

The Tasca family has owned land at Regaleali, in the hills of central Sicily, since 1830. Eight generations later the house is a five-estate operation run by Alberto Tasca d'Almerita (president since 2001, the younger son of the late Count Lucio Tasca), and the full name on the label is Tasca Conti d'Almerita.

The five estates:

• Tenuta Regaleali, the mother estate - a near-600-hectare property in the Contea di Sclafani DOC on the Palermo/Caltanissetta border at 450-850 metres, with around 400 hectares under vine. Nero d'Avola, Perricone, Inzolia, Grillo, Catarratto, plus Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc that Count Lucio introduced in 1979. This is where Rosso del Conte comes from, made since 1970 and considered Sicily's first single-vineyard wine - from the San Lucio parcel, planted 1959. Nozze d'Oro, the Inzolia / Sauvignon Tasca blend, was created in 1984 for Count Giuseppe's golden wedding anniversary with his wife Franca.
• Tenuta Capofaro (2001) on Salina in the Aeolians - old-vine Malvasia delle Lipari. The flagship Didyme is named for the Greek "twins" of Salina's two extinct volcanoes.
• Tenuta Tascante on the north slope of Etna, from 2007 onward (Rampante added later, in 2015) - contrade Rampante, Sciaranuova, Pianodario, Grasà. Ghiaia Nera is the contrada blend; Contrada Sciaranuova and Contrada Pianodario are the single-site bottlings.
• Tenuta Whitaker (2007), a partnership with the Whitaker Foundation - around 12 hectares of Grillo on the Phoenician island of Mozia in the Marsala lagoon, which is an unusual place to grow anything.
• Sallier de La Tour in the Monreale DOC near Palermo (partnership from 2008), built around Syrah alongside Grillo and Inzolia.

Certification-wise: founding member of SOStain Sicilia (2010), a regional sustainability programme that meets or exceeds organic standards without being organic certification, and B Corp since March 2023.