Tenuta Rapitalà

French tradition and Sicilian heart
In 1968 Hugues Bernard Count de la Gatinais, born in St. Malo, France in 1940, an officer in the French navy for eight years, married Gigi Guarrasi, a descendant of a great Palermo family. With her he embarked on an exciting and courageous adventure: the reconstruction with modern criteria of the winery destroyed by the Belice Valley earthquake.

The Count de la Gatinais' greatest attention is devoted to the varietal and cultural reconversion of the vineyards. As early as 30 years ago in Sicily, great French grape varieties were placed side by side with native vines.

Today, the work begun by Hugues de la Gatinais and his wife Gigi is carried on by their son Laurent with the same care and passion.

Rapitalà is one of Sicily's most prestigious wineries, an undisputed protagonist of the island's oenological renewal.