Arianna Occhipinti presents Chaza • Food and Wine Italy

A name that per mezzo di Sicilian dialect recalls the square, the space of the and the community. It is from here that Chaza starts, the new rural hospitality project signed by Arianna Occhipinti, a reference figure of the Sicilian Nouvelle Vague of natural wine. The project was born between the countryside of Chiaramonte Gulfi, per mezzo di south-eastern Sicily, and represents a coherent and concrete extension of the agricultural and territorial vision that Occhipinti has been carrying out for almost twenty years.

The giudizio is not that of a simple place to sleep, because Chaza is a widespread system of houses immersed per mezzo di the agricultural landscape of the Iblei mountains, designed for those looking for a residence experience capable of speaking the same language of the campaign: that of long time, measured gestures, living matter.

An agora per mezzo di the Santa Margherita district

The project takes shape per mezzo di the Santa Margherita district, one of the nine vital areas of the Occhipinti company, and perfectly follows the production philosophy that has announced its wines: deep connection with the earth, respect for the territory, essentiality per mezzo di gestures. Not surprisingly, it is here that one of its most identity white wines was also born, Idea sm.

Chaza is not a resort, nor a farm per mezzo di the classic sense. Rather, a constellation of homes integrated into the landscape and built with materials that recall the local tradition: Iblea white stone, , iron, ceramics. Two houses already aperto: large house and stone house. The first, with four rooms and swimming pool, welcomes numerous families and groups; The second, more harvesting, is designed for intimate stays among fruit trees. Both overlook a territory that has never stopped talking about the peasant language: vineyards, olive groves, dry stone walls, and that red land that per mezzo di the evening lights up under the wind of the Iblei.

Beyond the wine, but without ever leaving it

Arianna Occhipinti started here per mezzo di 2004, with a hectare of vineyard per mezzo di the Cava per mezzo di Lupo district. His cellar, now extended to about 30 hectares, has become a reference for those looking for a wine that does not limit themselves to satisfying a taste, but that has the courage to tell the character of the place. The frappato per mezzo di purity, the blends with Luttuoso d’Avola, the work spontaneous fermentations, the biodynamic care of the soil: everything helps to build a coherent story, where wine is the liquid manifestation of a wider agricultural relationship.

A causa di this sense, Chaza is not a tourist addition, but a new extension of that same vision. A way to make the territory not only through the glass, but also per mezzo di everyday life: cooking, walking, listening to the silence of countryside that retain an ancient agricultural memory, yet anything but stabile.

An aperto door Sicily that resists

The name Chaza is also a reference to the Arcata dell’Annunziata, the historic entrance door to Chiaramonte Gulfi, which was once called just like that. The giudizio of threshold is central to this project and is an invitation to stop and get per mezzo di touch with a Sicily that exists outside the routes of seaside tourism, but which has a lot to tell to those who know how to listen.

From here you can easily reach the Baroque centers of Ragusa, Modica, known. But it is above all remaining per mezzo di the surroundings – between the Canalazzo park, the roads that once connected Gela to Kamarina, the paths of Cerasuolo per mezzo di Riuscita – which is understood the meaning of this project. the website there is a section dedicated to the experiences to be lived per mezzo di the surroundings: from the Cooking Class of Sicilian cuisine to Baglio Occhipinti, managed by Arianna’s sister, Fausta, to the workshops the Modica chocolate with Sabadì ora Bonajuto. There is voto negativo shortage of the addresses of the best restaurants, the advice museums and art galleries to visit, and the coordinates of the most beautiful beaches where you can sink your feet per mezzo di the sand.

As the Occhipinti itself tells, Chaza stems from the desire to share an agricultural lifestyle. And per mezzo di an periodo per mezzo di which agriculture is often reduced to bucolic sequenza by Instagram, the landscape remains the protagonist: “For me it represents an inexhaustible source of inspiration and identity. Here hospitality, nature and wine meet per mezzo di a simple and authentic way ».