At the beginning of the 80s, Salvatore Di Gaetano's winemaking passion was attracted by a particular place, the district of Firriato, in the extraordinary countryside of the city of Trapani, an agricultural area deeply marked by the cultivation of vines and the culture of wine, located between the beautiful sea of the Trapani coast and the majestic fortress of the ancient city of Erice. These are the beginnings of a young entrepreneur, in love with his land and who looks at this land with new eyes, glimpsing the potential for growth and development of a wine-growing area of excellence such as that of the Trapani valleys, yet not expressed with the necessary commitment and the right productive approach. It starts from the vineyard, from the first plantings of Nero d'Avola, Catarratto and Inzolia, conducted with the scruple of modern viticulture centered on a new concept of wine quality that has its primacy right in the vineyard and in its agronomic management. Perfectly healthy grapes must arrive in the cellar, organoleptically complete, harvested at the right degree of ripeness. Respecting naturalness, exalting the oenological value, enhancing the varietal peculiarities of each vine is for Firriato, from the very beginning, a strict rule on which Salvatore Di Gaetano, harvest after harvest, manages to form a new model of wine business, rooted in the territory but with an eye to the most demanding and prepared markets. The Sicily of quality wine is coming out of the shadow cone that has penalized territories and businesses for too long, a new and exciting season of Italian wine is about to open, which has its propulsive engine in oenological Sicily. The Firriato company and the Di Gaetano family are, together with the great winemaking brands of the island, protagonists of this very important evolution, not only under the economic production aspect, but above all for the enological quality of the wines and the ability to understand the evolution of taste expressed by consumers. These were tumultuous, intense, non-stop years: new wines were born, new farms were acquired and the techniques and technological instruments of the winery were refined. It grows and the recognitions and prizes grow and, more importantly, the consensus of consumers grows. We travel the world, because the world has discovered Sicily and Sicilian wines. Firriato is among the first Sicilian wine companies that manages to best interpret this new international dimension and perspective, investing in it with decision and method, achieving one of the most solid distribution and commercial successes in the sector in Sicily. The voice and face of this entrepreneurial success is Vinzia Novara Di Gaetano, called by her husband Salvatore, in the mid-nineties, to share the full-time management of the company and to become its most authentic and true testimonial. The spontaneity and communicative naturalness of this lady of Sicilian wine becomes an important added value, capable of generating attention, curiosity and respect. Vinzia Novara lives the company, she takes care of the agricultural estates, she does not limit herself to managing communication. He is aware that in order to communicate the company in the best possible way, one must stay within it, get to know it thoroughly, be able to call the people who share the Firriato Project by name, in the vineyard and in the cellar. And so, in 1998, an extraordinary bond began between Vinzia Novara Di Gaetano and Firriato, for every label that her husband Salvatore creates there is her face, with images that tell us that Firriato has a soul, a colour, a look and that these elements coincide perfectly with a land of extraordinary beauty and generosity. Knowing how to team up, transmit enthusiasm, share values and emotions in the world of quality wine is as essential as breathing. At Firriato, the sense of belonging and the pride of sharing all together that project of growth and enhancement of the Sicilian wine-growing area, you see it everywhere, you read it in the looks, you hear it in the words of those who work there and are committed, with true and unchanged passion. Firriato, in this sense, is a family business, because it is a large family that recognizes itself in the dream of that young Sicilian entrepreneur who knew how to intuit and solicit the renaissance of Sicilian quality wine.