A growing area born of volcanic eruptions that over centuries has developed into a valuable home for viticulture. Mainly free-living, Pre-Phylloxera vines, exposed to the most extreme climatic agents, develop on dark volcanic soils resulting from lava flows. Here Animardente was born. A name that tells the soul of the silent volcano, unexpected and incandescent, giving life to perpetual motion. An irrepressible and seductive force of nature, an expression of a unique terroir. The wine’s name derives precisely from the bowels of the volcano, its incessant activity, the heat and color of the magma. Animardente is a pure nerello mascalese, produced from bush-trained vines rising 2297 feet above sea level, on soils that are sometimes sandy and ashy, sometimes pebbly and gravelly subjected to extreme day/night temperature swings. A seductive, powerful, textural, authentic wine.