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Producer: Filippo & Nancy Rizzo
From the Importer SelectioNaturel: Filippo Rizzo and his wife Nancy met many years ago while Filippo owned and operated a small restaurant in Belgium. At that time Filippo was among the first to be talking about and serving natural wines anywhere outside of Paris. His family had ties to Sicily and he was truly passionate about the preservation of the land and the importance of additive free wine. After years in restaurants and retail Filippo decided to get back to the land the best way he knew how, become a winemaker. With a scant 11 hectare farm, 4 of which are under vine, Filippo and Nancy have built the tiny Lamoresca estate from the ground up. While reviving his own olive groves and vines, Filippo spent several vintages with his comrade and fellow winemaker Frank Cornelissen making wine high on the slopes of Mt. Etna. La Moresca is the only winery for roughly 50 square km’s and Filippo and his farm hand Gaetano work the land endlessly by hand.
From the producer: The land cultivated with olive groves have also followed the evolution of the vineyard. Alongside the original 50 centuries-old plants of the Moresca variety, a variety that gives the company its name, other land has been acquired with about 300 secular trees that represent the history and memory of the various Sicilian cultivars.
These trees were all maintained and recovered for production and alongside them new plants were built in 2000, 2007, 2009 and 2020. We now cultivate about 6 hectares of olive groves. The varieties planted are typically Sicilian: Tondo Iblea, Biancolilla, Moresca, Nocellara del Belice and Ogliarola Messinese. The company also boasts of a small production of Leucolea, an ancient white olive from which a very light oil is obtained that was used in the past as a sacred oil in Greek Orthodox functions.
The processing of the olive tree, like that of the wine, follows a precise and severe path even after harvesting, monitoring that allows to obtain a quality oil with strong antioxidant properties, valuable organoleptic characteristics and a good intensity of taste.
Producer: Filippo & Nancy Rizzo
From the Importer SelectioNaturel: Filippo Rizzo and his wife Nancy met many years ago while Filippo owned and operated a small restaurant in Belgium. At that time Filippo was among the first to be talking about and serving natural wines anywhere outside of Paris. His family had ties to Sicily and he was truly passionate about the preservation of the land and the importance of additive free wine. After years in restaurants and retail Filippo decided to get back to the land the best way he knew how, become a winemaker. With a scant 11 hectare farm, 4 of which are under vine, Filippo and Nancy have built the tiny Lamoresca estate from the ground up. While reviving his own olive groves and vines, Filippo spent several vintages with his comrade and fellow winemaker Frank Cornelissen making wine high on the slopes of Mt. Etna. La Moresca is the only winery for roughly 50 square km’s and Filippo and his farm hand Gaetano work the land endlessly by hand.
From the producer: The land cultivated with olive groves have also followed the evolution of the vineyard. Alongside the original 50 centuries-old plants of the Moresca variety, a variety that gives the company its name, other land has been acquired with about 300 secular trees that represent the history and memory of the various Sicilian cultivars.
These trees were all maintained and recovered for production and alongside them new plants were built in 2000, 2007, 2009 and 2020. We now cultivate about 6 hectares of olive groves. The varieties planted are typically Sicilian: Tondo Iblea, Biancolilla, Moresca, Nocellara del Belice and Ogliarola Messinese. The company also boasts of a small production of Leucolea, an ancient white olive from which a very light oil is obtained that was used in the past as a sacred oil in Greek Orthodox functions.
The processing of the olive tree, like that of the wine, follows a precise and severe path even after harvesting, monitoring that allows to obtain a quality oil with strong antioxidant properties, valuable organoleptic characteristics and a good intensity of taste.