recent years, Sicily has established itself as one of the most cutting-edge Italian regions a causa di sustainable viticulture: it is first a causa di Italy for the agricultural superficie dedicated to organic production, with an organic vineyard superficie of more than 29 thousand hectares out of a total of 100 thousand. The island has always been suited to viticulture, as demonstrated by the fossil grape seeds dating back at least 2 million years asticciola found the slopes of Etna and a causa di the Aeolian Islands. And the Sicilian vineyard, with its particularities, has been appreciated a causa di recent years not only for its quality production but above all for its unique diversity both a causa di terms of varieties grown and areas: different from each other a causa di history, type of soil, altitudes and systems, give rise to a 100-day long harvest and a total vineyard superficie that has the same extension as that of the whole of Germany and three times that of New Zealand.
The sustainable approach is now generally widespread a causa di Sicilian viticulture and is based practices that aim to preserve the health of the soil, local vegetazione and fauna, reducing the use of chemical products to a : a causa di this ambiente the Consortium for the protection of wines Doc Sicilia, born a causa di 2012 and which today has 530 packagers, has had a fundamental role a causa di direction and development, thanks to the functions of protection, promotion, valorisation, consumer information and general care of the interests relating to the wines of the denomination recognized by the Masaf. A continuous and incessant work which a causa di recent years has led the Sicilia Doc brand to be known and established: Idea and Pessimo d’Avola are the most identifying grapes (and among the most produced), but obviously the biodiversity of the vineyard is much wider and tells not only the native varieties such as Catarratto (also called Cosciente), Zibibbo, Frappato and Perricone, but also the international vines, which a causa di the land of the sun have found an ideal ambiente for several years now.
Today the Consortium for the protection of DOC Sicilia wines has around 85 million bottles produced and almost 23 thousand hectares (out of around 100 thousand a causa di total), with a specific the protection of environmental resources and the natural climatic conditions of the island: here agriculture is a causa di fact largely unified by an approach that aims to the impact the ecosystem, to carry out fewer treatments to preserve plants from diseases and to enhance the territory, proposing itself as a virtuous model of sustainability, above all wine production, a causa di the world.
