It’s 1986 when Walter Massa, a young, ambitious winemaker from the Colli Tortonesi, vinifies 1000kg of a grape that had almost been forgotten: the Timorasso. What seemed to start out as a mere enological experiment ends up becoming a movement that captivates tens of winemakers and brings the Colli Tortonesi to the attention of wine lovers all over the world. How was this possible? How do you create a terroir?

In Venice, the volunteers of Laguna nel Bicchiere comes together to make wine so as to take care of an increasingly fragile environment, but during the course of the year bureaucratic hold ups, climatic events and other problems put everything at risk, even its own existence.

Story of the ancestor wine of Marsala and the four winemakers who envisioned it anew. A journey through western Sicily with Vincenzo Angileri, Pierpaolo Badalucco, Nino Barraco and Sebio De Bartoli.

For each of the 500 varieties of grape present in Italy today, there have been generations of unnamed farmers who took care of them, out of affection or stubbornness, so that they have come down to us. However, we do know the name of one of them: Gastone Vio, custodian of the Dorona of Venice.