We had a special meeting with the Atina Cabernet Consortium in the splendid Comino Valley. A young consortium - like its president Enrico Rossi - that protects and promotes a very original interpretation of an international grape variety.
The consortium was born in 2018 with the ambition to protect the quality of the wine and to tell its territory of origin.
As President Enrico Rossi says, 'it is not easy to promote a wine that is produced all over the world and that is not really indigenous to our territory, even though we have imported it for almost two centuries now'
Cabernet had been brought to Atina by an oenologist and mayor, Visocchi, after the phylloxera had destroyed the vineyards of almost all of Europe.
Here the vine has found an ideal place and the wines stand out from those of the rest of the world.
'The wineries of the consortium must now make themselves known more, they must tell their story because it is unthinkable to reach customers only through traditional channels.'
And we add that stories and contents must be written in Italian but also in English because there are more citizens of the Comino Valley outside the world than in Italy.
Two weeks ago, we were in the square in Picinisco for an aperitif and we only spoke in English. All the people at the tables in the square spoke only in English.
And we as Discoverplaces must tell Atina's cabernet thrilling stories to all these Italian descendants (and also to their friends outside Italy).
And now you can start reading their stories and know something about their wines in these links:
Tenuta Cervelli
Tenuta Sabatini
La Ferriera
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