Cantine Amato

It was 1927 when great-grandfather Vincenzo Giardina Papa, who had emigrated in the United States at a very young age, decided to return to Sicily, nostalgic for his homeland.
Once back he opened a small osteria in Piraino, where wine and food enlivened the evenings: this was the beginning of the history of Cantine Amato.
In 1958 following Vincenzo’s footsteps, his son-in-law Rosario Amato (known to everyone as Saro) founded a winery in Piraino. This is where the winery, in a larger, modern and technological version, is still based today.

The results obtained, result of the passion and dedication with which Rosario devotes himself to his work, led him over the years to expand the cellar by purchasing wooden barrels and cement tanks and more land plots.
In the 1980s, it was the turn of his son Salvatore, drove by the same dedication as his father and the same desire to improve the cellar, enriching it with avant-garde oenological equipment.

Today, Salvatore is supported in the management of the winery by his family, mainly by his son Rosario, who continues the winemaking tradition with an open mind, new ideas and energy.