Local Products
Sicily, land of history and culture, is also a land of fragrances and flavors. Those who venture into the vast forests in the autumn immediately notify the intense smell of the forest, the rotting leaves and mushrooms, chestnuts, ground and, if you like walking or hiking in the spring is captivated by the strong scent of broom, roses and blossom, as well as the warm summer evenings intoxicated with the smell of jasmine, rosemary and oregano.
Most of these fragrances can be found in jams and marmalades, syrup and pests, or in a rich sauce of spices that season the most traditional dishes of the ancient Sicilian cuisine. Cheese, provole Floresta, Roccella Valdemone ricotta, salami, meat of black pigs Nebrodi, the sausage to the stock's office, in the Farmhouse mutton, lamb of Etna, the pistachio, the Maletto strawberry, pears and peaches Maniace and Moio, potato Giarre, Zafferana honey, vegetables, pasta and homemade bread in the oven. And desserts, extra virgin olive oil, limoncello Alcantara, cakes, sorbets and ice creams. These and many other products, genuine expression of a land and a rural tradition that has been handed down for centuries, are available from the Agriturismo Vallebruna who wants to devote particular attention and care to the promotion of local products.
Wine
The wine has accompanied the evolution of human history and culture and Mount Etna has roots that are lost over the millennia. The Greeks, who have appreciated particularly, the invention made it back to Dionysus and the entire Greek Mythology has always played an important role. Polyphemus, the giant of the Odyssey of Homer, called it "nectar and ambrosia at the same time." Even in medieval civilization is one of the features, even more than it was in previous classical civilization, after having known stages of decline during the period of barbarian invasions and the Arabs. Resumes overbearing effect with the Norman gaining in importance in the economy leading to the present day and the island's more popular than ever, not only on the tables of Sicilian restaurants or markets but much of the world.
The vineyards are farmed and cultivated at the foot of Etna "in kind", about 750 meters above sea level, characterized by dry stone walls and terraces, representing the highest testimony to the dedication of the peasants to the land of Etna, while aware that the same " nature "when they want you take what he has given plenty. The centuries-old relationship of coexistence between man and the volcano, with its destructive albeit spectacular lava flows, making an even more these crops and makes the work of man worthy of great respect. Bottled with labels Terre Etna and Morgan at the winery "Terre Etna," Randazzo.
Oil
The olive growing is one of the key sectors of agriculture Etna, with significant levels of production and quality.
The cultivation of olive trees, and Mount Etna during the Valle dell 'Alcantara, also assumes a major role in helping to characterize the vegetation landscape of the two protected areas.
The typical cultivar "Brandofino"or "Randazzisa", together with the better known "Nocellara Etna, which are in the ideal conditions of climate and soil, allow to obtain an extra virgin oil in its harmonic components and unique, with very low percentage of acidity. The Company Vallebruna, which cultivates strictly biological processes, produces cold and bottles labeled "Vallebruna" at the mill, "The valleys of Etna"in Lingfield.