Our Vineyards
CELLI (Emilia-Romagna)
The Celli vineyard is a true family affair. Their beautiful lands lay in the hills of Bertinoro, in Emilia-Romagna, near to the Adriatic coast. The Roman presence is ubiquitous.
Here, the diversity of soils and microclimates define four different characteristics – the sea, the sun, the soil, and the winds — a collection useful for fine-tuning highly balanced and strongly territorial blends. The Sangiovese is uniquely Romagnan and indigenous Albana Secco offers a beautiful full-bodied white wine.
CANTINE DEI COLLI RIPANI (Marche – Province of Ascoli Piceno)
Colli Ripani is a wine cooperative that draws its strength from over 330 local producers. Located in the spectacularly beautiful hills around Ripatransone in the Province of Ascoli Piceno. Their local growers – family enterprises – express through their grapes a profound desire to protect and enhance their highly-productive lands that give life to the native Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Pecorino, and Passerina wines.
GIANNI MOSCARDINI (Toscany)
The Moscardini family has owned this land for almost 100 years.
Gianni Moscardini (formerly, Sator) is located in the upper Maremma in Tuscany about 30 KM north of the famous Bolgheri area atop a plateau nar to the town of Pomaia with the Montescudaio DOC appellation. Classic grapes abound – Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Ciliegiolo, along with Vermentino. The terroir is extraordinarily rich with varying soiles – pure limestone to the stony and arid soils of magmatic-volcanic origin. Sun and continual breezes from the mounts and nearby sea keep the grapes healthy and, with ample heat, produce a slow maturation of grapes that yields perfect aromas and balance
MADREVITE (Umbria)
Nicola Chiucchiurtlotto now leads the multi-generational family farm in the transition from the production of organic grains and olive oil into the world of artisanal wine-making. Madrevite situates in the area around Castiglione del Lago, in the hills surrounding Trasimeno Lake and Lake Chiusi in northwest Umbria only 2 KM from the Tuscany line.
“My wines respect the territory, time, and tradition of the place in which they have been developed. Uniqueness in not a trait you decide to achieve … On the contrary, it’s the natural result of constant work and awareness, aiming to preserve what you already possess.”
FONTANAVECCHIA (Campagna)
The historic wine cellars of Fontanavecchia: a temple dedicated to wine, to the hard work of humankind, to the enchantment of the slow and to the delicate rhythms that have entwined the lives of a family of winegrowers for generations. Built by the founder of the Rillo family, beginning in the 19th century and later restored and enlarged, today this is one of the outstanding wine-producing facilities of the Campania region producing renown wines of local tradition – Greco, Falanghina, Aglianico del Taburno.
BOSCO DE MEDICI (Campagna – Pompeii)
Literally in the shadow next to Pompeii and the Vesuvius volcano in the rich soils of Campagna to the west of Naples, Bosco de’ Medici wines give form and substance to a passion to lands that have stood the test of time. The Palomba Family are heirs to a thousand-year history of lands settled by the Romans and strive to provide you with artisanal wines of great character. In addition, they offer the products from the Bosco de’ Medici organic garden and lands on a beautiful, properly-sized resort with culinary experiences develped by the Italian chef Gioacchino Nocera.
ELENA FUCCI (Basilicata – Vulture)
Three years in a row voted one of Italy’s Best 100 vineyards. If you love Aglianico…
“Our winery was founded in 2000 at a time when our family was discussing whether to sell the beautiful vineyards surrounding the house where I grew up. The vineyards were purchased in the 60’s by my grandfather Generoso, who chose to buy the highest part of the vineyard in Contrada Solagna of Titolo at the foot of Mount Vulture (an extinct volcano). Over the years that followed, my grandfather and great-grandfather took care of the vineyards, selling the grapes after harvest and keeping just enough to produce some wine for personal consumption…Respect for nature and its cycles – no use of chemicals…We vinify only our grapes.”
MARIO BAGELLA (Sardinia)
Mario is a self-described young winegrower with a passion for engines, travel, food, and nature. “Since I was a child I loved writing and drawing. I have always been very curious: I liked to understand how things worked and over time I learned to understand it thanks to the scientific studies. I graduated in Agriculture to embrace my roots and to be able to better understand and face the challenges of modern viticulture. We create our wines with ancient artisan knowledge and modern processing techniques, wines that are born of our passion, our philosophy and our territory. We cultivate the vineyards with sacrifice and dedication, respecting the balance between man and nature.”
PAOLO CALI (Sicily)
Paolo Calì is one of the daring young winemakers in southeastern Sicily who has dedicated himself to the cultivation of a vineyard in the most challenging of soil and weather conditions. His aim is to recover the centuries-old family tradition of these unique same lands.
“Our work presents the dream I cherished as a child, the dream of reviving the countryside where my father took me every afternoon after school. I have the ambition to produce real wines, free from conceptual schemes, free not to pursue fashion, and free to excite, having the privilege of bringing what I think and what I believe in to the tables and glasses.”
MASSIMO LENTSCH (Sicily – Etna)
The winemaking tradition meets the challenge of extreme conditions in volcanic lands: the vineyards, grown with Etna sapling and largely ungrafted, are real works of art harmonizing with nature. Each vine receives meticulous care … free from herbicides or chemicals. In the cellar Massimo Lentsch uses only indigenous yeasts and does not clarify the wine, thus preserving the original qualities of the fruit. All Wines follow organic and vegan protocols but beyond the certifications is a commitment to safeguard the environment and the people who live in the Etna appellation. “Strengthened by our experience in a different volcanic area on the Island of Lipari, I would like to continue to personalize my wines with freshness and elegance, preferring good acidity to the detriment of vilent tannins and high alcohol content.”
TENUTA DE CASTELLARO (Sicily – Island of Lipari)
Tenuta de Castellaro is an emerald jewel located on the starkly beautiful, arid, and windswept Liapari, one of the Aeolian Islands off the tip of the Italian ‘boot’. Its wines are born from the love of a unique territory and from the will to recover in order to give life to a project made of land, vineyard, and people, in an extreme synthesis of purity. The millenary tradition of the alberello (‘little bush’) vine training system imposes almost total manual processing of the vines and the grapes … a tradition demanding dedication, passion, experience, strength, and generosity. Those are the characteristics that the team of Tenuta di Castellaro transmits to its wines.
VICARA (Piemonte)
Tradition, born from a great respect for ancient growing and wine-making techniques, and from the optimization of the native grapes – Barbera, Grignolino, Freisa – from which Vicara produces both its great classics for everyday enjoyment and wines of the highest prestige that win awards year after year. Located in the Monferrato area renown for castles and ancient cellars dug out by hand … a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is the cradle of Vicara and its design. Vicara boasts years of sustainable farming, practices experimenting in elegant mixtures of international grapes as well as in in crus and ageing. But above all, it is the people who work every day in the vineyards and the cellar to make Vicara what it is.
LAMBARDI (Tuscany – Montalcino)
The land to the immediate northeast of famed Montalcino was purchased in 1973 but the first Brunello di Montalcino – just 500 bottles – was released five years later (1978) in a single barrel in the tiny one room cellar under the family home. Lambardi was one of the founding members of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino back in 1967 after recognition of the DOC. Today, the Lambardi vineyard has 6.5 hectares almost all of it entirely registered as Brunello Di Montalcino. Now, in its new cellar, annual production is just 12,000 bottles evenly divided between Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Rosso di Montalcino, and Sant’Antimo Bianco.
CASA LUCCIOLA (Marche – Matelica)
Casa Lucciola is a small family-owned farm focused on wine making. It was certified for organic agriculture since 1998 and has embraced biodynamics since 2014. The premier wine is the Verdicchio di Matelica DOC. Their beautiful vineyards totaling 4 hectares are settled on the Casalucciola hill 430 meters above sea level. The soil is rich in mineral-rich clay and limestone. Our original two swarms of bees (2010) have grown to 10 today and they enrich the pollination of our vines and family garden that is cultivated with permaculture experiments, a synergistic practice benefitting our vegetables, grapes, and animals.
ANNESANTI (Umbria)
Francesco Annesanti is a winemaker taught by a caring grandfather and fueled by strong passion for grapes, art, and the peasant way of life brought to modernity in an unassuming manner. His family-run company occupies 20 hectares in the small village of Arrone, just a few KM from the famous Marmore Falles, in the heart of the bucolic Valnerina. Annesanti has produced ambitous new wines from sparkling to a very fresh Barbera to extremely small productions of both white and red wines in large amphora that are non-filtered.
“I look with great interest at the non-sectorial way of structuring the farm of the past where the farmer was in tune with nature and respected its rhythms in biodynamic ways were study and care were required of the delicate balances between man, animals, and plants.”
COLLEVITE (Marche – Province of Ascoli Piceno)
Collevite is a small private cooperative, located in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, the southernmost in the Marche, by 15 entrepreneurial growers who present generations of growing experience. They are proud heirs to a peasant culture that exhibited passionate care for their land and vineyards. Collevite grapes source from 250 hectares within the Piceno territory, an expanse of hilly land stretching from the Appenine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea that feature soils composed largely of clay and high limestone content as well as varying sun exposures and microclimate. The result is richness of extracts, vivacity of color and profume…and longevity of wine life. Emphasizing the traidtionall grown grapes of the terroir: Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Passerina, and Pecorino.
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