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Akrille Cutrera Bastianich

Producers

Akrille is a project born of friendship anchored in history, and aimed squarely at the future of Sicilian wine.  It is the dream realized of Salvatore Cutrera, whose family is well-acclaimed for award-winning Gambero Rosso “Tre Foglie” extra virgin olive oil and Joe Bastianich, Italian-American restaurateur, winemaker, and one of the most recognizable figures in the world of food and wine.

The name Akrille reaches back to the ancient origins of Chiaramonte Gulfi, a sun-drenched hilltop town in the province of Ragusa in southeastern Sicily, where the old millstone of the Cutrera family once stood — and where today the Akrille winery has come roaring back to life, planted squarely in the heart of the Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, the only Sicilian DOCG. Old family vineyards were revived and new ones planted at elevations of 400 to 600 meters on wild, stony, previously uncultivated hillside terrain — soils that give the wines a striking freshness, salinity, and personality, sharpened by dramatic day-to-night temperature swings.

The philosophy is uncompromising: wines produced exclusively from indigenous varieties, with careful selection of the oldest clones preserved in the territory. Nero d’Avola, Frappato, Grillo, and Catarratto take center stage — their labels inspired by the Arabesque geometries of ancient Sicilian ceramics, elegant and symbolic, telling the story of the intertwining cosmopolitan cultures that have made this island a unique and dazzling mosaic. Akrille is a project born of friendship, anchored in history, and aimed squarely at the future of Sicilian wine.