Hauner Winery - Malvasia delle Lipari

La Malvasia delle Lipari ed altri vini dell'Azienda Hauner

Carlo Hauner Junior

The Hauner farm located on the island of Salina, in the Aeolian Islands was founded in the '70s by Carlo Hauner senior, who moved there and bought a land size of 20 hectares. After cleaning and having restored the ancient terraces, he made this land a vineyard Malvasia, grape already cultivated by local farmers on the island. The wine Hauner is today well known in the most prestigious restaurants worldwide

The farm now is led by Carlo Hauner Junior, son of the founder. It produces two types of Malvasia (natural and raisins), one white wine and two red wines and a unique Grappa di Malvasia delle Lipari. The production is made from the grapes from the vineyards, in the district of Lingua in Salina, and from grapes of other small local winemakers

Carlo Hauner, from Brescia but with Bohemian origin was the creator of the farm that bears his name. He arrived for the first time in the Aeolian islands in 1963 as a tourist. As a young man he was a painter and not yet twenty years old, he exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia. In the years of maturity he gained significant international success as a designer. His passion for winemaking can be seen as the ultimate challenge of an intense life full of interests... So begins the page on the website that tells the story of the Hauner winery.

I met Carlo Hauner hen I was a teenager. He furnished our apartment in Milan and designed for us a beautiful house in a stunning location on the Lecco branch of Lake Como: a house that seemed to bring the whole Grigna into the house. All furniture were designed and produced by him, very simple and basic furniture of a nice wood ( Hauner himself taught us how to keep it bright with nothing more than raw linseed oil). A mutual feeling of esteem and friendship bound him to my father who often spoke us of his wonderful workplace on the hills of Brescia that unfortunately I have never seen. It was a man interesting and very kind with a thousand interests (I still remember how funny he was when dancing the samba ...). Suddenly he fell in love with the island of Salina and soon moved there with the whole family.

At home I always try not to ever miss a bottle of Hauner Malvasia, just to make me a cuddle from time to time. I like to drink it fresh, especially before dinner while nibbling a few bits of cheese or a terrine de volaille and other snacks while waiting to sit down at the table, as the ancient Romans who always drank sweet wine as an aperitif.

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