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A project that has its roots in a traditional viticulture that looks to the future and projects it on international markets of quality wines. A common vision where the new generations carry out an oenological design that focuses on the innovation and valorization of the territorial characteristics.

In the late 70’s, the Sicilian wine has been able to identify an important journey of rebirth. The starting point shared by many was in the land and in the vineyard, in the arms of those who cultivated it, in the family, from one generation to the other. However, an agent of change and perspective was given from a new awareness of the value of the wine in Sicily, and the chance of being able to rely on one’s identity and production capabilities, choosing the innovation, the organic and the sustainability.
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Our Vision Vision

A vision that found new life and new impetus in the generational shift of the ‘90s, making Colomba Bianca a solid and collective leader in a cohesive management team, fully committed in defining its own production and organizational model, focused on research in viticulture and enology. Colomba Bianca is in fact a member of that movement that take this challenge, by demolishing some logics of the past while aiming at the quality of the wines, at the productive peculiarities as well as the enhancement of the territorial diversity.

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Good practices allowed Colomba Bianca to become one of the most interesting reality in the wine-making scene of the island. A process that, so far, has achieved the level of maturity in terms of entrepreneurship necessary to face the most important and competitive markets, both national and international, with a production specialization that focuses mainly on organic wines. A reality on the move, open to the world, with solid roots in the land and in the communities.
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our journey

Our History History

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    Year of foundation

    1862

    In a distant day of Spring 1970, the founding members Gaetano Taschetta, Giuseppe Chirco and Ignazio Oliveri saw a white dove lying on the vineyard that they were visiting in the Trapani countryside. A predictive sign that gave rise to the name of a cooperative, meant to become a model for the Sicilian viticulture and winemaking scene.

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    Production start-up

    1980

    Colomba Bianca begins to transform its own grapes inside the first production plant Tre Cupole, surrounded by the countryside of Mazara and Salemi, with an approach that enhances the raw material and gives recognition to the work of the local winegrowers.

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    Vintage Wine

    1925

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    First projects of organic production

    1990

    A demand for organic wines is growing within a new range of more aware and exigent consumers. Thanks to the precious contribution of the winemaker Carlo Ferracane, Colomba Bianca supports winegrowers in that conversion process of its own organically grown vineyards, in order to convey the potential of the area also within this new market segment.

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    Leonardo Taschetta elected Chairman

    1997

    The company changes face and points its own production philosophy towards the consolidation of the productive mission and the value of the wine industry, as well as the land, providing the foundations of Colomba Bianca as we see it today. The beginning of a new virtuous path that will lead the company to become one of the biggest wine-making cooperatives in Sicily, as well as one of the major organic wine producers in Europe.

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    Acquisition of new plants

    2000-2010

    Colomba Bianca follows its development path through the acquisition of new production plants. Situated closer to the vineyards, the Tre Cupole, Vitese, Va di Mazara, La Vite and Torretta cellars are meant for the single production specializations. These factories exploits fermentation and ageing process differentiated according to the grape varieties. During the years, these wineries will be increasingly provided with modern and cutting-edge technology.

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    The Sparkling Art project

    2011

    Together with the bottling process start-up for still wines, Colomba Bianca engages in the project of the Sparkling Art, celebrated through the introduction of a prestigious Classic Method. A new path that will lead the company to become a landmark in the Sicilian scene, thanks to cutting-edge technology and a Know How-based system.

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    First bottles of organic wine

    2016

    The Vitese line takes its name from the homonymous winery located within the Vita countryside, marking the beginning of bottled-organic production. The first label produced is Grillo, followed by a wide range of organic wines made of autochthonous and international varieties.

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    The Resilience Project

    2017

    Colomba Bianca carries on its work of enhancing the historical vines of the Sicilian winemaking tradition. The Resilience Project has its root in the concept of ‘resilience’ within the vine. The autochthonous Perricone and Lucido, in particular, play a leading role in a specific project of recovery and preservation, within high average-age, historical vineyards that carried out an extraordinary process of vines adjustment to the target habitat.

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    Colomba Bianca celebrates forty years

    2018

    Colomba Bianca celebrates the fortieth anniversary of production through two exclusive wines. Symbol of a love path constantly looking for the best quality, Quarantanni Bianco Riserva, together with the Rosso Riserva convey the commitment and the passion of the 2480 winemakers.

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    The new headquarter

    2021

    The new institutional headquarter is launched and located in Mazara del Vallo, Cartubuleo district, whereby in addition to all the offices of the cooperative, a modern analysis laboratory takes place provided with cutting-edge technology: a database that, harvest after harvest, embraces unique wealth of information allowing the company to achieve high-quality wines.

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    The Cara Terra project is born

    2022

    A wine dedicated to our land, a brand that tells the story of Colomba Bianca’s commitment to producing territory wines, made in a sustainable way and respecting the environment. The organic and VIVA certified wine is not filtered and is kept in its integral form. Packaging is aware of a circular economy of recycling and reuse and therefore aims at minimizing the company’s impact on the environment.

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A company of Tradition and Quality

The numbers of Colomba Bianca Colomba Bianca

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2480

Wine growers
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6900

HA vineyards
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1800 K

HA organic vineyards
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Original recipe

The Essence of Colomba Bianca Colomba Bianca

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Harvesting

Through harvesting, Colomba Bianca therefore develops a precision wine-making approach where the key element is linked to the concept of proximity. The analysis of a large number of information requires accurate procedures that must be consistent with what is planned every year by the technical team. A production specification that allows us to obtain excellent quality standards, at the basis of a production philosophy more and more oriented towards the organic farming.

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The wineries

Located nearby the vineyards, Colomba Bianca wineries are devoted to the individual specializations of production. Equipped with modern and cutting-edge technologies, plants are used for differentiated vinification and aging processes, according to the varieties cultivated. Six wineries spread throughout the territory – of which five dedicated to wine production and one exclusively meant for the bottling process – where the Colomba Bianca team of oenologists, in collaboration with winegrowers, carry out specific grapes processing, differentiated according to the single varieties cultivated.

Harvesting

Through harvesting, Colomba Bianca therefore develops a precision wine-making approach where the key element is linked to the concept of proximity. The analysis of a large number of information requires accurate procedures that must be consistent with what is planned every year by the technical team. A production specification that allows us to obtain excellent quality standards, at the basis of a production philosophy more and more oriented towards the organic farming.

The wineries

Located nearby the vineyards, Colomba Bianca wineries are devoted to the individual specializations of production. Equipped with modern and cutting-edge technologies, plants are used for differentiated vinification and aging processes, according to the varieties cultivated. Six wineries spread throughout the territory – of which five dedicated to wine production and one exclusively meant for the bottling process – where the Colomba Bianca team of oenologists, in collaboration with winegrowers, carry out specific grapes processing, differentiated according to the single varieties cultivated.

An historical territory of the Sicilian Viticulture

From the territory of Vita in the heart of Trapani – with countryside, woods, streams and chalky soils – to the coastal area of Mazara del Vallo with pedoclimatic conditions more similar to North Africa. The territory of Colomba Bianca reflects a mosaic of terroir that embraces an ampelographic heritage made up of over thirty-two autochthonous and international varieties. 7500 hectares of vineyards mostly concentrated in the countryside of Trapani, the province with the most vineyards in Europe, with six wineries located in close proximity, each of which is designed to a production specialization.

Organic Colomba Bianca: the essence of nature

Respect for nature, care and attention towards the final consumer. A production philosophy that allowed Colomba Bianca to become one of the greatest organic wine producers in Europe. A trend destined to grow over the next years, until it reaches 50% of the total production. With its gaze fixed on the future and oriented towards the exploitation of the Sicilian wine into the World, Colomba Bianca has conquered, with devotion and absolute commitment, a prestigious place in the elite of organic wine-making cooperatives, both in Italy and abroad.
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An historical territory of the Sicilian Viticulture

From the territory of Vita in the heart of Trapani – with countryside, woods, streams and chalky soils – to the coastal area of Mazara del Vallo with pedoclimatic conditions more similar to North Africa. The territory of Colomba Bianca reflects a mosaic of terroir that embraces an ampelographic heritage made up of over thirty-two autochthonous and international varieties. 7500 hectares of vineyards mostly concentrated in the countryside of Trapani, the province with the most vineyards in Europe, with six wineries located in close proximity, each of which is designed to a production specialization.

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Organic Colomba Bianca: the essence of nature

Respect for nature, care and attention towards the final consumer. A production philosophy that allowed Colomba Bianca to become one of the greatest organic wine producers in Europe. A trend destined to grow over the next years, until it reaches 50% of the total production. With its gaze fixed on the future and oriented towards the exploitation of the Sicilian wine into the World, Colomba Bianca has conquered, with devotion and absolute commitment, a prestigious place in the elite of organic wine-making cooperatives, both in Italy and abroad.

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