A 50-hectares-vineyard and now a new cellar to produce wines. This is Feudo Maccari, the wine company owned by Antonio Moretti, that in the last couple of years has become well known amongst critics and public. The first wine produced by the new cellar is a Moscato, which is also the first sweet wine of Feudo Maccari, presented for the first time last year at the Vinitaly and obtained from the grapes of the Sultana vineyard, from which the wine takes its name. The 2009 harvest will be distributed starting from September 2010 in 2000 bottles only. It looks more like a marketing operation than love for the Val Di Noto. A land fraught with historical, artistic and natural attractions. The baroque of the balconies of Principe Nicolaci di Villadorata palace are part of the Unesco World Heritage List, together with all the other decorations, also Palazzolo Acreide and the other towns of this cultural district are on the list.

 

The Val Di Noto was originally one of the three valleys in which Sicily was divided and is located in the south eastern part of the Island, where the Ionian Sea meets the Mediterranean. One of the most pristine areas, from which its charm derives. In front of the Val di Noto, near the seafaring village of Porto Palo, there is the small island of Capo Passero and the lighthouse, a land founded by the Phoenicians who escaped from the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysus. And Marzameni, with its delicate small square dedicated every last weekend of July to a film festival, the tuna-fish net and the small island with Vitaliano Brancati’s red house.