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Antoine ARENA

winemaker : Antoine Arena
Region: Corsica
City: Patrimonio
Grape varieties : nielluciu, vermentino, bianco gentile and muscat
Surface Winery: 14 ha
Annual production: 65.000
Certification: Biodynamie-DEMETER

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Antoine Arena's wines

winemaker Corsica and family tradition

Grandson and son of winemaker Corsica on the Patrimonio terroir, Antoine Arena first studied law in Nice before returning to Corsica in 1975. He finally fell in love with the 3 hectares of vines of the family's Winery , which quickly became one of the island's leading estates.

Natural wine from Corsica 

The natural approach came to him as a reaction to the large agro-industrial chemical groups. Since 1980, with the help of his wife Marie and his two sons who are now taking over, Antoine Arena has never tried to spare himself in his efforts to reconquer the best terroirs of Patrimonio. Today, Winery covers 14 hectares. Again in 2005, with his sons, they decided to conquer the Hauts de Carco, a magnificent, well-oriented area, but made up of enormous rocks. It was enough to give up. After crushing, digging up and extracting these boulders, this parcel is planted with vermentino and bianco gentile on 1 ha: determination is the word that sums up Antoine Arena and his family. He does not give up when it comes to preserving the terroirs and the life of the soil: ploughing, no treatment, natural manure inputs, etc. to work biodynamically on slopes of more than 25°, where olive trees and maquis once grew.

Organic and biodynamic wines

Antoine Arena is a pioneer for this appellation, a driving force for many of his fellow winemakers. Powerful but extremely fluid wines, some with a great minerality, which require 1 to 2 years of ageing. The Winery is divided into 3 zones: - Carco on 3 ha (2 ha vermentino and 1 ha nieluccio), very hard limestone soils, east-west orientation. Grotte di sole on 3 ha (1 ha vermentino and 2 ha nieluccio), more clayey limestone soils, south facing. 5000 vines/ha- Morta Maio on 1.6 ha (nieluccio), north-south facing. 5000 vines/ha plus a few plots of land, one of which is Muscat.

Winery Arena : the continuation

The future of Winery is assured by the two sons, Jean-Baptiste, who returned to Winery in 2003 (after studying law) and is now working in the vineyards and is the main actor in the transition from "Organic" to "Biodynamic". Antoine-Marie, back at Winery since 2004 (studying History and Geography) who is in charge of the cellar and the winery. Antoine, the father, is never far from his sons. Thank you to them for allowing us to taste natural Corsican wines!

 

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