Heroic viticulture: terraced vineyards a thousand years old, and the rare sciacchetrà dessert wine.
Explore → Get Early AccessTaste wine grown on cliffs — Cinque Terre DOC whites from terraces so steep the harvest rides monorails, and Sciacchetrà, the amber dried-grape rarity that Pliny praised and only a few thousand bottles of exist yearly. Cantina visits here are vertical farming tours with a glass.
A thousand years of hand-built walls made these vineyards; phylloxera and emigration nearly ended them, and the national park now subsidizes wall restoration because the terraces ARE the landscape — no vines, no Cinque Terre.
Sciacchetrà grapes dry on racks until November, losing most of their weight — a hundred kilos of grapes yields around 25 liters — and the name may come from dialect for 'crush and pull.' Bottles age decades; locals save them for baptisms and the popes have received them as state gifts.
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