Tenuta Leopardi · Comiso
Guardi, a story that continues
Tenuta Leopardi
A new chapter
At Tenuta Leopardi, in the countryside of Comiso, our story is told first through everyday gestures. In the way someone walks a vineyard row, studies a bunch of grapes, or knows when to wait and when to act. This understanding grows slowly, harvest after harvest, binding people to a place in ways that reach far beyond their work.
Here, in south-eastern Sicily, Guardi is writing a new chapter. It brings together those who cared for the estate through its most difficult days and those who have chosen to give it a new perspective.
The renewal
A shared purpose
Leading the renewal for Guardi Italia is Thomas Lanzerstorfer. His entrepreneurial experience and his organisational and management skills bring an essential strength to the project: the ability to turn a vision into decisions, investment and a shared endeavour. Reviving a business means recognising its potential, but also creating the conditions for that potential to flourish over time.
His commitment reaches across the estate: vineyard care, work in the cellar, the identity of the wines and hospitality. The aim is to bring these elements together with a common purpose, building a future firmly rooted in the place where it begins.
Salvatore
The vineyards could not wait
Those roots find a valued custodian in Salvatore, who looks after the estate’s day-to-day management and has known its vineyards, seasons and needs for years. His connection to the land has been built through hands-on work: through consistency, attention to the vines and the responsibility of being there every day.
When the previous owner passed away in 2024, leaving the business facing profound uncertainty, that connection became something even more tangible.
While the future of the business hung in the balance, the vineyards could not wait. The vines still needed tending; the work still needed doing. Salvatore stayed. His efforts kept a possibility alive: that everything built here could endure and, one day, begin again.
In the cellar
Before it appears on a label
Today’s project draws strength from that quiet continuity. Alongside Thomas’s entrepreneurial leadership and the estate’s everyday expertise is the team of winemakers Luca Caramellino and Saverio Riccobono. Their work supports the renewal of the wines, connecting vineyard practice, cellar decisions and the identity Guardi seeks to express.
Different experiences come together around the same question: how can we give our wines a character that truly reflects this land and the work of the people who live it?
The answer takes shape in the cellar, before it ever appears on a label. Through tasting, through decisions, through the pursuit of wines with clarity and a distinctive identity.
Names and symbols
Cricket, Tacito, Orma, Vespro
The names, too, are part of this change. Cricket keeps its place, while Tacito, Orma and Vespro bring new associations: the attentive silence before a decision, the trace left by someone passing through a place, the evening light as the day’s work slows.
These images find an echo in the two animals on our logo. The white owl recalls a real encounter in the estate’s kitchen, carrying a sense of observation and attentiveness. The leopard, connected to the name Tenuta Leopardi, expresses character, energy and elegance. Together, they accompany Guardi’s story without taking the place of its roots.
Hospitality
Stay at the estate
This story also welcomes those who visit us. Hospitality is part of life on the estate: our beautiful, welcoming rooms invite guests to linger and experience the place beyond a tasting. A stay offers the chance to discover the wines where they are made, meet the people who care for them and get to know our home.
What comes next
A story that remains open
Because this renewal does not begin with a legend. It begins with vineyards that someone continued to tend, with the decision to invest once more, and with people who have chosen to work towards the same goal.
The new bottles will tell the story of this journey. But at Tenuta Leopardi, the story remains open: in the wines still to come, in the people who will arrive, and in the pleasure of sharing what we are building.
