In Roman times Melissa returns to the headlines by Ovid who remembers her in the “Metamorphoses” as a pleasant place, rich in vineyards, not far from Crotone. Legend and history, therefore, that let us deduce that since very remote times, Melissa had a long tradition to which both the farmers and the Melissesi wine producers have remained faithful.

Over the decades Melissa wine achieves more and more flattering appreciation, so much so that the Bruni family, through the initiative and spirit of initiative of “Mario Bruni”, in 1934, for the first time produces a bottle of wine bearing the label “Melissa”. The wine is presented at the third national exhibition of agriculture in Florence, where it obtains the first official qualification diploma with a gold medal.

“Legend has it that Melisso or Melisséo, Cretan prince following Minos in Sicily, after the death of his king, takes up the sea and, beaten by the waves along the Calabrian-Ionian coast, arrives in that district, which from the colony he founded is precisely called Melissa. Here his subjects, dedicated to agriculture and already very experienced in the art of cultivating the vine, transform the countryside that is very fertile, into lush vineyards from which they obtain a very delicious wine for goodness and refinement, of taste.”