A product of excellence from this heroic viticulture is Sciacchetrà, a renowned sweet dessert wine made from the best of our native grape varieties; a wine that on the one hand is bound and interwoven with the morphology of the Cinque Terre, a place where nature and man have vied for space from time immemorial in a relationship of love and hostility, but also, on the other, rose quickly to literary prestige, via the medieval declarations of key authors in Italian literature like Petrarch and Boccaccio, all the way to Montale, who came to consider Sciacchetrà superior even to the world-famous Port. D’Annunzio celebrated its profound aromatic sensuality, extolling it as “that bold Sciacchetrà that is pressed in the five vine-covered lands,” while Carducci adopted the incisive definition: “the essence of all the Dionysian intoxications.”
Its color is amber yellow with golden hues. Its aromas are of dried fruit and raisins, honey, aromatic herbs, with notes of the sea and rock. A warm flavor, intense and immersive. An encounter with this celebrated sweet wine has always represented a unique moment, exhilarating, for its high profile sensory characteristics as well as for the emotions it is able to transmit.

In 1973 the Cinque Terre DOC is born. With this definition of the area of production and this specification, our wine is protected and appreciated.
A contained area, around 15 km of coastline to an elevation of 700 m that encompasses plots in the towns of Monterosso, Vernazza, Riomaggiore, and in part, La Spezia.
The grape varieties — primarily Bosco, Albarola and Vermentino — are planted in characteristic terraces created with excavated earth and supported by dry walls built by man over centuries.

Grown according to the traditional system of low pergolas with heights between 60 cm and a meter, the grapes are protected from the inclemency of marine winds.
The terrain that easily absorbs the sea air, warmth, and water; the temperate climate, sheltered from northern harshness; the favorable exposure to the sun; the very rocks in the dry walls, that reflect the sun rays’ heat, accelerate the maturation of the grapes. Together with man’s hard work, these are the unique ingredients that have made the wine of the Cinque Terre legendary.