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Anna Martens & Eric Narioo

Anna Martens and Eric Narioo made their first wine together on Mount Etna in 2008. In 2010, the couple purchased their first vineyard of old bush vines of Nerello Mascelese in Contrada Crasà, along with a neighbouring, derelict Etnean palmento and wine cellar.
Today, with a team of locals, they cultivate organically, eight hectares of terraced land, divided into small vineyard plots and olive groves scattered across the north face of the volcano. Grapes are hand harvested in September and October and fermented into a range of natural wines, expressive of their “terroir”.
The estate also produces an extra virgin olive oil and rears the rare Sicilian black bee.

Solicchiata, Mt Etna, Sicily

“Vino di Anna” is a small, family wine estate situated high on the northern slopes of Mt Etna, near the village of Solicchiata. The heart of the domain is in Contrada Crasà, where the winery and family home are located. The rest of the vineyards are situated in different contrade (historic lava flows) from the secluded 100 yr old Don Alfio vineyard, in the contrada Piano Filici, above the village of Rovittello, to the renowned contrada Rampante, above Passopisciaro.
The white vineyards are concentrated on the north-western side of the volcano in contrade Nave, not far from the estate’s Grenache dominant vineyard in contrada Tartaraci, near the village of Maletto.

Vino di Anna Wines

Eric and Anna aim to make wines that are tasty, expressive, true to their provenance and that reflect the growing season that year. All of the vineyards are tended by hand and farmed without the use of any agrochemicals. Only healthy ripe grapes are harvested by hand and brought to the wine cellar. Here, there is minimum intervention; fermentation is by indigenous yeasts, at ambient temperature. No additives are used. Wines are vinified and aged in lava stone, chestnut and French wood, Georgian qvevri, glass and stainless steel. They are naturally clarified by gravity and are not filtered. Zero or miniscule quantities of SO2 are added, only when it is deemed a necessity for the stability of the wine.
Natural Wines Sicily

Anna Martens & Eric Narioo

Anna Martens and Eric Narioo made their first wine together on Mount Etna in 2008. In 2010, the couple purchased their first vineyard of old bush vines of Nerello Mascelese in Contrada Crasà, along with a neighbouring, derelict Etnean palmento and wine cellar.
Today, with a team of locals, they cultivate organically, eight hectares of terraced land, divided into small vineyard plots and olive groves scattered across the north face of the volcano. Grapes are hand harvested in September and October and fermented into a range of natural wines, expressive of their “terroir”.
The estate also produces an extra virgin olive oil and rears the rare Sicilian black bee.

Solicchiata, Mt Etna, Sicily

“Vino di Anna” is a small, family wine estate situated high on the northern slopes of Mt Etna, near the village of Solicchiata. The heart of the domain is in Contrada Crasà, where the winery and family home are located. The rest of the vineyards are situated in different contrade (historic lava flows) from the secluded 100 yr old Don Alfio vineyard, in the contrada Piano Filici, above the village of Rovittello, to the renowned contrada Rampante, above Passopisciaro.
The white vineyards are concentrated on the north-western side of the volcano in contrade Nave, not far from the estate’s Grenache dominant vineyard in contrada Tartaraci, near the village of Maletto.

Vino di Anna Wines

Eric and Anna aim to make wines that are tasty, expressive, true to their provenance and that reflect the growing season that year. All of the vineyards are tended by hand and farmed without the use of any agrochemicals. Only healthy ripe grapes are harvested by hand and brought to the wine cellar. Here, there is minimum intervention; fermentation is by indigenous yeasts, at ambient temperature. No additives are used. Wines are vinified and aged in lava stone, chestnut and French wood, Georgian qvevri, glass and stainless steel. They are naturally clarified by gravity and are not filtered. Zero or miniscule quantities of SO2 are added, only when it is deemed a necessity for the stability of the wine.

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