Cusumano sits on the western Sicilian plain at Partinico, with its Tenuta San Carlo headquarters set among the white tufa soils of the Trapani hinterland. The estate, founded in 2001 by brothers Diego and Alberto Cusumano, now farms more than five hundred hectares spread across six properties in western Sicily plus the Alta Mora project on the northern slopes of Mount Etna. SOStain Sicilia certification covers the full range, with the badge printed on every back label.
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Estate visit and guided tasting at the historic Tenuta San Carlo headquarters in Partinico, organised on request. The dedicated booking subdomain is relaunching during May 2026; reservations are currently confirmed by direct email to the estate.
Book this experienceEstate visit and guided tasting at the historic Tenuta San Carlo headquarters in Partinico, organised on request. The dedicated booking subdomain is relaunching during May 2026; reservations are currently confirmed by direct email to the estate.
Book this experienceThe story behind Cusumano begins with two brothers and a deliberate Sicilian mosaic. Diego and Alberto Cusumano took over from their father Francesco in 2001 and chose to build the estate as a network of single properties rather than one central farm. Today their land sits across Tenuta San Carlo at Partinico, Tenuta Ficuzza at Piana degli Albanesi at seven hundred metres, Tenuta San Giacomo at Butera in central Sicily, Tenuta Presti e Pegni and Tenuta Monte Pietroso at Monreale, and the Alta Mora estate on the northern slopes of Etna.
Each tenuta has its own grape and its own wine. Sàgana, the producer's most awarded Nero d'Avola, comes from white tufa soils at Tenuta San Giacomo in the Butera hills. Noà, a Sicilian Bordeaux blend of Nero d'Avola, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, is grown at Tenuta Presti e Pegni outside Monreale. Angimbé, the Insolia and Chardonnay white, sits on stony soils at higher altitude, while 700slm, the Brut Metodo Classico, is sourced from Ficuzza at exactly seven hundred metres above sea level. Single-vineyard Moscato dello Zucco continues an old western Sicilian tradition revived by the family.
The Etna chapter opened in 2013, when the brothers acquired three contrade on the volcano's northern flank under the Alta Mora name. The Etna cellar, designed in hypogean architecture and powered by biomass energy, vinifies hand-picked grapes without pumps and without added yeast. Guardiola, Feudo di Mezzo, Pietramarina, Solicchiata and Verzella each anchor a different Etna Rosso, Rosato or Bianco DOC bottling driven by Nerello Mascalese and Carricante.
Sustainability sits at the centre of the estate's identity. Cusumano belongs to the SOStain Sicilia programme, which audits renewable energy use, biodiversity protection through winter cover crops, low total sulphur in the finished wine, and the publication of an annual sustainability report. The double-certification badge, issued in partnership with V.I.V.A. Sustainable Wine, appears on the back label of every Cusumano bottle.
For an Italian-wine reader looking to understand modern Sicily in two pours, a glass of Sàgana from Butera and a glass of Alta Mora Guardiola from the northern Etna covers the island's two most important reference styles. Few Sicilian estates carry both white-soil interior and volcanic black slopes under one family ownership.
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Plate I · SICILY
Cusumano's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Nero d'Avola and Chardonnay.
Est. 2001 
15 wines 
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