The family business Gaja has developed extremely dynamically over the past decades and is now active not only in Piedmont but also in Tuscany and Sicily. For Angelo Gaja, Etna has always been a place of longing, and since 2015 he has cultivated 19ha, mainly planted with the native grape varieties Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Capuccio. His winery is called IDDA, the local name for Etna, and the wine is also called that, both in red and white.

Wherever Angelo Gaja has a hand in it, an enormously impressive quality ends up in the bottle. This is also true of his Sicilian project, which he developed together with the Graci winery. He bought two plots totaling 40 hectares on the south side of Etna, which, unlike the north side, is still quite undeveloped; there are only a few wineries here. The Graci winery itself, like Tenuta delle Terre Nere, is located on the north side of the volcano. The south side does bring some challenges, but at the same time also almost endless potential, especially for white wines.