Luigi Veronelli a master of of oenological culture wrote:

“ I have already stated many times, and I will say it again, Pantelleria for its beauty,for its agricultural efforts ( and here I also include with good reason, those connected to the sea; the fishermen and those who work the land have almost always – and this may surprise you greatly - identical gestures) and for its contradictions.
From the moment I abandoned it – with the sale of Cal Tramontana, news and rumours - perhaps for the surprise, or the respect or just the devotion - have reached me.
Is it true or not, that Calogero Mannino is there to create a Passito that might re-launch his fallen star! ?
One of the best Agricultural Ministers of the last century,often greatly opposed by his fellow colleagues ( going so far as an incrimination, unjust even for an anarchist like me)
I will taste a little drop with the ‘frenzied ethics’ of the Latin peoples.
I saw it just once and I passionately love it. Pantelleria is about one hundred kilometres from Capo Granitola, Sicilian and yet just seventy kilometres from Cape Mustafà (Tunisia).It’s obvious that I am deeply touched by the intensity of the sea, the rareness of the Bugèber lake also known as the ‘Mirror of Venus’ or the ‘Bagno del Acqua’; then the splendour of the coves, the whiteness of the ‘dammusi’ those characteristic cube-shaped constructions with dome-like roofs for collecting rainwater; not to mention the green ‘cuddiè which is the Arabic word for hill, the vines and the capers mingling together like tiny drops amidst the black and grey of the volcanic lava stone.
I am even more moved by the men who tend this land. Working among the capers and the vines is always hard, so imagine here amidst these burning stones and with little rest. The workers of Pantelleria are indeed mad angels.

….and this is where we began.