Gruppo Bertolino

Founded and lead by the Bertolino Family, that with firmness has not only believed in the enormous potential of its own land, Sicily; but has, at the same time, been capable of taking advantage of opportunities to invest in Italy, Europe and overseas. Today, with the help of its various subsidiaries, the Group is a leader in its field, maintaining its characteristic role as a  Private Group with a deep technical knowledge of the several phases of production, an essential trait for continued future success, from one generation to the next. From the production of alcohol up to the manufacture of tartaric acid, always striving to invest in new technologies and in human resources. The Distillery's commercial activity centres around the processing of wine and wine by-products (wine, grape marc, lees) for the creation of wine alcohol, wine distillate, both fresh and aged, and denatured alcohol (total annual production of approximately 15.000.000 L of alcohol of various types, and a distillation plant capacity of  150.000 Litres/day).  In addition, it is produced calcium tartrate, obtained from wine lees, which ultimately is the base in the production of Tartaric acid, as well as dried grape seeds useful in the oil Industry and for extracting new type of powerful anti-oxidant.