We are a group of nature lover friends, who in 2012, with the establishment of the Cooperativa Agricola Terre Grecaniche, wanted to create a social laboratory whose mission is to help re-build a community capable of a promising future, focusing on people and relationships. This laboratory has its roots, riza, in the language of the Greeks of Calabria, which feeds off the culture and ancient history of Greek Calabria.
Our cooperative produces organic grapes in its own vineyards that overlook the promontory of Capo Spartivento between land and the Ionian Sea, in one of the most picturesque and unspoiled areas of the Aspromonte, Greek Calabria. Our vineyards, to the south of the Italian peninsula, breathe the heat of the earth and the sea breeze in the area of production of IGT Palizzi, one of the most famous red wines of Calabrian viticulture.
A natural choice for the Terre Grecaniche Cooperative is that of organic farming, based on the adoption of environmentally sound production methods of human and animal welfare and the protection of the environmental biodiversity of the area.
The vineyards of Terre Grecaniche Cooperative, placed 200 meters above sea level on clay soils, consist mainly of native variety plants that are arranged with a regular planting system of 1m x 2m and grown with pruned cordon, with a density of about 5,000 plants per hectare. The yield is about 40 quintals per hectare. The plants are disetanee, that is, of different planting periods that varies from 12 years, for the oldest part, to about 3 years, for the recently planted part.
The grape varieties grown are: Nerello Mascalese, Calabrese, the Alicante, Syrah, and the Greco Bianco, Montonico, Pecorello.