Throughout our journey we have crossed paths with many –too many– who were traveling in the opposite direction to ours. We continually wondered if we had taken the wrong road, also because ours seemed to be totally uphill. Then, finally, we began to meet them, those who –like us– were stubbornly proceeding in the same direction as us.

And we experienced community, we began to travel parts of the road together, to feel less and less alone and to feel the climb less and less.

We have met breeders, producers, farmers, fishermen, winemakers who are “on the side of nature” and who, consistently, travel in an Obstinate and Contrary Direction. They guard –with love– biodiversity, soil, sea.

Thanks to their commitment we can still hope to recover what, over time, a globalized and massified system has made us waste! A system that has almost convinced us that a clod of earth was just earth. But no: a clod of earth is a container full of scents, aromas and flavors that are different point by point. All you need to do is work it wisely, plant the right seeds and give it the care it needs so that that content, an expression of a territory, comes out in a glass of wine.

Together with the best-known Sicilian excellences, whether organic or conventional, we wanted to select some winemakers –indicated by the leaf– who make wine production an art, who apply small-scale production systems while protecting the biodiversity of the territory. Winemakers who, following an agro-ecological approach, seek a constant balance between nature and production.

Because for us D.O.C. means OBSTINATE AND CONTRARY DIRECTION which, after all, is the one that follows nature.