Gulfi

Gulfi is a Catania-family estate in Chiaramonte Gulfi in the Ragusa hills, founded by Raffaele Catania in the 1970s and expanded by his son Vito from 1995. The house is best known for being the first to release single-contrada Nero d'Avola bottlings from Pachino, drawing distinct expressions from the Maccari, Bufaleffi, Baroni and San Lorenzo plots in Sicily's southeast corner. A second range comes from the northern slopes of Mount Etna, where centenarian Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio vines sit around 850 metres on volcanic soils, alongside a tiny experimental Pinot Noir planting at Vigna Militi in Randazzo. Across all sites the farming is organic, vines are trained as alberello bush vines, ferments are wild, and ageing happens in large neutral Slavonian casks.