Sorrentino

History Christ s cry, tears shed for a Paradise land laying on the Men s Earth. Legend and history of the Azienda Vinicola Sorrentino wine cross each-other to form a sublime and fascinating matter, where sacred and profane are mixed to give life to a magical taste and a faith novel, an original path, dense with flavours and beliefs, interily played upon a new Divine Nectar. Vesuvian wine has deep origins, lost in the night of time: Greeks, in the apex of their empire, planted on Vesuvius foot, in territories belonging to the ancient Magna Grecia (the greek italian colonies), the Aminea Gemella Linore, ancestor of all modern local vines and, according to the italian historian Columella, recognizable in the present Greco del Vesuvio wine. In a land dominated by the sun and the motionless rolling of seasons, the history of the Vino del Vesuvio receives an energy lash in the roman age: the ancient masters of the World fully developed the viticultural potential of the vulcanic land, setting up the so called Vesuvio varieties, ancestors of the Lacryma Christi. Poets give to the men a new world vision, and it was a french one, Alfred de Musset, to celebrate in the most beautiful way the sublime flavoured Lacryma Christi and its mythical nature: in Les Caprices de Marianne, he shapes the profile of its divine origin: Lucifer, the Evil Angel, expelled from Heaven, managed to steal an edge of it and bring it with him on Earth, so forming the Gulf of Naples. Sorrowful because of this loss, Jesus Christ started to cry, sheding tears just upon Mount Vesuvius. Vines and grapes of an angelic taste rose from these gentle tears. This legend resulted powerfully evocative thanks to its successful wedding between fascination of the place and heavenly taste of this wine; even Curzio Malaparte, an italian novelist, in "La Pelle" invited his friends to cheer with this holy, ancient wine, remembering its supernatural origin. Today, the Azienda Vinicola Sorrentino produ-ces this new ambrosia in three varieties: white, red and rosé D.O.C. (D.P.R. 13/1/83 - G.U. n° 167 del 26/06/1983.).