Planted in the late 1800s, the vineyard is located in Milo, on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, at an elevation of 800 meters. It is planted at a density of 9,000 vines per hectare on volcanic, sandy soils rich in ripiddu—a mix of lapilli and volcanic pumice. The parcel has been owned by the Cosentino family for three generations, but it was only in 2007 that Alfio Cosentino began bottling the wine himself rather than selling it as bulk wine. In 2016, together with Salvo Foti, he bottled this wine for the first time under the “Vigna don Paolo” label.