#WineWednesdayWisdom: Ancient winemaking in Sicily at Feudi del Posciotto

here in Sicily at the beautiful winery of Faudi del Picato here with Marco the famous wine maker and he just walked me through this interesting process how they used to make wine in ancient times but the process is the same but without machinery right >> yeah yeah yeah it's this is the history of our our cellar history of the Sicilian winery but um right now we using the same uh gravity force for uh for movement the for move the wine and for that the the making the wine is a new method but it's the same method of >> so how did they make it in the past >> but in the past the the grape are throwed through the window arrive in this first tank >> from over there >> yeah from to bring it with like cows and >> yeah with some uh uh cow or some uh other other animal for trans donkey. Yeah. For transport the grape in a bigger chest. And uh after when arrive here some people throwing the grape over the uh the window and arrive in this first tank. >> Okay. >> Where the grape are pressed by foot. >> Uh >> no sacks. >> Uh no only by foot. >> Okay. >> By foot I think. And I hop with with some clothes. >> Okay. And after arrive in this uh bigger yeah only the juice arrive here and start the first the bigger fermentation when the sugar are transformed in in alcohol. Okay. >> After this process, the wine are filtered in in this in this last tank are filtered with a rope and with some chest and some cloth by with line of this for filtering the wine >> like a big bed spread or something >> and arrive here >> and the wine will be here >> and and after I bring it for consuming or for the transportation. >> Uhhuh. So over here it will lay quiet like in the >> Yeah. Can can stay can relaxing and after. >> Wow. So you can technically use the same process now. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We using the gravity in our cellar because uh when the process when arrive the grape arrive in the in the uh in the upper part and through some um uh the pipe and through some hole we have uh in in this roof we arrive directly in in the tank and for that we using the same gravity force for move the the grape the must and and after the wine for the bottle. These building are are builded in 18th century from the family branch fore is a very famous family important family and are restored in the first day of 2000 from Mr. Paulo Panerai and for give the new life of this place. >> Beautiful guys. I forgot one thing. You know the rule. The more we taste, the more we know.