Established in 1995, Planeta is a Sicilian wine producer built on a long agricultural tradition handed down since 1500 through 17 generations in the area between Sambuca di Sicilia and Menfi.
Today Planeta represents not just one, but six ways of developing the territory, in six different settings. There are, in fact, six Planeta wine producing estates, each one with a specific research and development project. Ulmo, at Sambuca di Sicilia, Dis...
Sambuca du Suícilia
Located near Sambuca di Sicilia, a town of Arab origin on the shores of Lake Arancio, the Ulmo estate, inaugurated in 1995, is Planeta’s first winery. Surrounded by 93 hectares of vineyards where several grape varieties are grown, it stands in a landscape of matchless beauty, with a wine cellar built just a few meters away from the 16th-century farmhouse – The Baglio – which has always been owned by the family.
This estate...
The Etna Volcano and the Carricante 23/12/2014 - 23/12/2014
The volcano, the Etna terroir, the Carricante, a dry and lively grape; this is a bottle for anniversaries and end-of-year celebrations. It is made in the classic mode, with thirteen months of maturing on the lees. Etna owes its notoriety to its special climatic and environmental conditions. On the north slopes, a little under a thousand metres altitude, the climate is often diffi...
The Planeta olive grove extends for 98 hectares in the Capparrina district, a natural oasis of great beauty, and sloping towards the sea. Planeta’s decision to dedicate this land to olives was not random. It was both an ethical and aesthetic choice in order to safeguard the landscape and its nature, to make the most of the land and to create employment. It provides an alternative to the uncontrolled use of concrete, proof that other possibilit...
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