Nicolò Grippaldi

My name is Nicolò Grippaldi, I am 37 years old and I am a biodynamic winemaker in Gagliano Castelferrato, a small village 651 meters above sea level in the province of Enna, Sicily. My dream began in Florence when I attended the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy.During those years I heard the word biodynamics for the first time from my dear friends, owners of Castello dei Rampolla, and from there destiny changed my life.After graduating I decided to return to Sicily and on my great-grandfather's abandoned land in 2015 I planted about 13 thousand vine shoots. Not just a vineyard but a complete and complex organism Where the vine is born, Where it grows, evolves and lives. I do not manipulate the process of turning grapes into wine. I let the earth and the stars To set the natural rhythm. Biodynamics in the vineyard and cellar is a key vector by which terroir becomes the blood of the earth where it is born . The wines express a strong and precise identity of their terroir.