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In the charming Contrada Serra del Tesoro between Ginestra and Venosa, in the very hearth of Vulture, Azienda Agricola Laluce winery softens the rigor of its modern architecture with the colors of the 7 hectares of vineyards that surround it and with the charm of the rows that seem to chase each other until the slopes of the old extinct volcano. From these soils of volcanic origin, of limestone, clay and magma, located at an altitude of about 400 meters, a red wine is among the most prestigious in the Italian wine scene is made: Aglianico del Vulture DOC.
The cultivation carried out with the wisdom and patience of the old tenants, prefers quality to quantity, in order to ensure an authentic and pure wine of great personality, a symbol and guarantee in the world of the unicity of the territory of Vulture. In the warm atmosphere of the tasting room, next to the company wines, Michele Laluce provides a sensory journey to discover the agri–food treasures of Vulture.
San Pietro Estate is one of the historic companies of production of Gavi DOCG Wine, situated on the Hills of Tasarolo 300 meters above sea level. It covers an area of 60 hectares, of which 30 are planted with vines, mainly with Cortese di Gavi, and a small part of with red grapes. The wines of San Pietro Estate are obtained following the criteria of Biodynamic Agriculture: you bring in the bottle a lively wine, produced by plants that grow on healthy and lively soils.
The seat of the company, founded in 1964, is located in Bevagna, in Capro locality, where the founder Domenico Benincasa is committed in the pioneering work of the modern cultivation of the Sagrantino grape variety. Since 2009, also the "Tenuta Vincastro" in the Municipality of Passignano sul Trasimeno has been part of the Benincasa company, which stretches for 50 hectares along the hills of the village of Castel Rigone down towards Lake Trasimeno.
Azienda Agricola Villa Papiano, situated in Modigliana, extends on the south slope of Mount Chioda at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level from the mountain to the bottom of the valley, to the river Ibola.
The total area is of approximately 60 hectares, of which 10 are vineyards and the remainders are divided among olive groves, arable land and forests.
The absolute peculiarity of the habitat, the fertility of the soil, the geographical location of the Tuscan–Romagna Appennine and the specificity of the vineyards prompted us to carry out an ambitious wine and of environmental recovery project.
The professionalism of the group, agronomic research united to the interest for innovation are the cornerstones of the project of Villa Papiano.
Papiano is a frontier settlement, built in the second half of the fourteenth century under the rule of the Medici family.
Villa Papiano is a small stone castle, which followingly belonged to the Papiani family, nobles of Modigliana, who in the late seventeenth century was enhanced by a village with houses and a small church at the service of the structure, becoming witness to a transformation from frontier garrison to a center of agricultural, farming and wood exploitation activities.
Even today you can breathe the air of yesteryear, as it has remained untouched by the presence of man, and dominates a large valley of fields and woods.
At the foot of the Montagnola Senese, the Castel Pietraio Farm is located in the town of Monteriggioni in the area of the Colli Senesi. The 153 hectares that encircle the medieval castle are divided among vineyards, olive groves, corn and sunflower fields, meadows and woods, respecting the natural features of the land. Castel Pietraio has a natural vocation to valuable viticulture, thanks to the particular climatic conditions, the good exposure, and the passion of the owners, all amplified by the professionalism of the young oenologist, Ms. Barbara Tamburini, who has been collaborating with the company for many years with the aim of improving more and more products, environmentally friendly produce through natural fertilization, reduction of plant protection products. The winery is equipped with the best equipment for the vinification and aging of wines exclusively from their own grapes.
Cupello–Montalfano, in the sweet harmony of these Hills of Abruzzo, under the sky cleaned by the sea breeze, the vineyards of Di Stefano Winery grow. Vines have their roots among the generous layers of clay, characteristic of the topography of the area, and finds that wealth and variety of natural elements that translate into wines with an unmistakable taste .... “strong and gentle as the land of Abruzzo”.
Wine, the fruit of this land, uniqueness of flavors and feelings, is based on hard work, passion and professionalism.
The story of Cascina Valeggia is not traceable from historical documents but only from the tales handed down from father to son.
Cascina Valeggia is located in Moncalvo, a village of Piedmont in the province of Asti with more or less 3,500 people, situated 305 meters above sea level. The wide municipality territory, 17.6 square kilometers, after having been a fief of various noble families, passed to the bishops of Asti who, in 1198, ceded it to the Marquis of Monferrato. On August 9th, 1774 Vittorio Emanuele declared it City of Italy.
The Bollito family, from Cisterna, a municipality in the Asti area, comes to Moncalvo at the beginning of the twentieth century and chooses to produce high quality wines, using methods that respect tradition and nature.
With perseverance and patience it develops and achieves the sizes of our days thanks to the experience gained and handed down over the years for three generations. The company, with its 25 hectares of vineyards in constant development with new vineyards and modern technology, always ensures the best quality of the product. It can face the most demanding international markets with great traditional wines of Piedmont: Barbera d’Asti Superiore, Barbera d’Asti, Piemonte Barbera, Grignolino D’Asti and Freisa d’Asti; two White wines: Manzoni Bianco and Piemonte Chardonnay; some international red wines: Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah, and finally a very limited production of an indigenous variety of Monferrato: Slarina.
The Whole production is vinified in owned wine cellars with new technologies developed respecting hygiene and the typicality of the product. In the old cellars in brickwork, the best wines of Cascina Valeggia are aged in oak barrels. In addition to wines, delicious raw milk goat cheese is made, derived from milk produced in the company’s breeding farm, salami of own production, Piedmontese breed meat. All of our products can be tasted and bought in the new farm shop. The rooms of the farmhouse inn will be available soon.
Chiaretto, Groppello and Lugana are the three great wines that tell Garda and the passion of the Pasini family, who cultivates its vineyards in Valtnesi and Lugana.
In the San Giovanni farm, on the Brescia’s Riviera of Lake Garda, the Pasini vinify their own grapes, with particular attention to local varieties, to make wines of pure territorial expression.
Now firmly adopted by Andrea Pasini since 1958, the care of a unique land, which can produce such authentic wines, made of cobblestone and permeable hills in Valtnesi and of solid clay in Lugana, today has became a strong determination to safeguard environmental resources.
The modern winery has been housing since 2009 a photovoltaic plant useful to supply the company and the whole production chain, the Pasini reveal more and more a
responsible use of raw materials, showing a design of full sustainability, which the family has undertaken with determination.
Very recent is the indication on the label of the carbon imprint, ie the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere to produce each bottle. A key parameter for evaluating the overall environmental impact of the company.
The winery of the San Giovanni farm is associated with the Consortia for the protection of the two DOC of the territory in which it cultivates the vineyards owned, Valtnesi/Garda Classico and Lugana, and is in the forefront in the promotion of the new Valtnesi DOC, the designation that finally defines Valtnesi as an ancient Italian territory of great rosé wines and elegant red wines.
Next to the cellar, in ancient farmhouse, Osteria della Cantina – Villa Pasini has been founded, an informal meeting place, that combines local cuisine with the wines of San Giovanni and of the great Italian oenology.
The winery of the San Giovanni company is located in Raffa di Puegnago del Garda.
The company has about 40 hectares of vineyard: 30 in Valtenesi, divided into Raffa di Puegnago and Picedo di Polpenazze and a little less than 10 in Lugana, in San Benedetto di Lugana.
Already owned by the Marquises Matteucci, the company was purchased in 1979 by the Zonin family that has made the transformation from its mainly cereal–olive original stance, into the current wine–olive orientation.
Fattoria Il Palagio, now owned by Gaetano Zonin, overlooks a typical Tuscan hill in Castel San Gimignano, in the Val Elsa of the Siena area, Municipality of Colle di Val Elsa and for a small part Municipality of San Gimignano, in the heart of a land, the central Tuscany, which has deeply marked the history of Italian art and civilization.
At an altitude of 350 meters above sea level, it has an extension of about 350 hectares, of which nearly 100 are planted with vines and 15 with olive trees.
The soil, consisting predominantly of clays and yellow sands, of good structure, has a good capacity of water retention, that can be appreciated especially in summer, when the weather is dry.
Vineyards are modern, trained with Sylvoz spurred cordon method.
In addition to Chianti DOCG, Vernaccia Di Sangimignano DOCG, particular attention should be paid to Arnolfo Di Cambio, a 100% Sangiovese red wine that ages for 18 months in the barrel cellar of the company and to Sauvignon IGT, defined by Maroni as an "educational" Sauvignon, that has received several times the Diploma of Great Mention at the Vinitaly Wine Exhibition and other awards.
Donna Caterina farm was founded and established in the area among the river Piave and the Hills of Conegliano. Situated in Vazzola, a plain and fertil soil, suited to viticulture, the company is affected by the strong territoriality and the ancient traditions that still survives. From this fact, over the course of several generations, comes a product rich in history and passion.
Wines derive exclusively from lands worked directly by producers by qualified vinegrowers and experts of the company. Vines are cultived with care and dedication, confident about the fact that the best results do not derive from an intense practice but by an important evaluation of that delicate balance that exists among plant, soil and climate. The aim is to search for an ideal balance that results in an important wine, strong of its scents and flavors.
Today, this still lively way of thinking, development, agronomic knowledge and winemaking innovations are fundamental features to obtain the excellent quality of its wines.
Father and son, both oenologists, studied and graduated at the oenological school of Conegliano. Even the winery of the company, Always ready to renovate itself technologically, investing on cutting edge winemaking equipments, has recently initiated a structural adjustment of the structure. A necessary step, given the company’s productivity growth that takes place in a gradual and measured way with a look to the origins. The wines produced are the most traditional of the Piave lands.
The company was founded in late 2000 and is located between Cortona and Montepulciano in the hills that face the village. The soil structure is made of tuff with small parts of clay that outcrop in the highest areas. The exposure of the vineyards, to the south and west, allows a perfect ripening of the grapes. The 11–hectare vineyard, with 6,000 vines per hectare in the most recent plots and 4,000 in the eldest ones, presents different varieties: Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Trebbiano and Malvasia.
Azienda Ronco del Gnemiz does not love fashions nor trends and has worked for years to refine the results obtained, sometimes in captivity, with tenacity and stubbornness. At Azienda Ronco del Gnemiz they are like their wines: austere but true.
the Primis Farm was founded in 2003 in Stornarella, in the province of Foggia, by two young engineers, Nicola Selano, agronomist, and Gianni Mauriello, enotechnician. Conceptually, Primis stands for "primordial", meaning a simple and natural approach with vines and wine: in contrast to the reference zone, in which the vineyard is grown with Puglia canopy management with very high yields per hectare, the Primis Farm runs a small fortune of espalier ("a controspalliera") vineyards, planted and carried out with the most modern viticultural techniques.
In addition, the Primis Farm growns native grape varieties like Bombino Bianco, Greco, Nero di Troia, Negroamaro, Montepulciano, Ciliegiolo and Aglianico and grafts in the field cuttings taken from the best vineyards in the area, not to mention the rooting capacity of certain international varieties like Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Syrah and Merlot.
In the wine cellar, then, you can breathe the same air of research and investigation of the vineyards. It is all very modern, in reduced scale (the largest reservoir is of only 100 hl) but extremely essential.
The Corsini family is one of the oldest and most important noble Italian families, honored in Spain with the title of “Pari” and in Italy of that of Princes, hence the name of the company. Duccio Corsini leads personally, with great freshness of ideas, energy and passion, the two wineries of the family: Le Corti and Marsiliana.
Le Corti, with a continuous history of almost six centuries, is the historical company of San Casciano, the northern area of Chianti Classico: owned by the Corsini family since 1427, it has always been dedicated to vines and olive trees. The approximately 50 hectares of vineyard and almost 14,000 olive trees are combined into a landscape of remarkable beauty, with steep and stony slopes, dominated by the wonderful Renaissance villa. Given the great vocation of this land to Sangiovese, the production is focused on three Chianti Classico: the elegant and balanced Le Corti, the more complex and austere Cortevecchia Reserve, the rich, soft and powerful Don Tommaso. The range includes also three products that represent three different ways of reading the Chianti Classico territory through its main grape: Zac IGT Toscana 100% Sangiovese from a single vineyard, Rosé Le Corti, a rosé from Sangiovese, and the sparkling wine Charmat method Principe Corsini rosé, obtained from grapes of Sangiovese with a brief stay on the lees.
Marsiliana, located in Manciano in southern Maremma, one of the largest agriculture and hunting farms on the Tuscan coast. From the about 20 hectares devoted to vines, two international red wines of great interest are obtained. Marsiliana (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah) is a rich, warm and deep, typically Mediterranean blend. Birillo is an original mini–supertuscan produced from cabernet and merlot grapes.
Sgaly is a modern organic winery of the Marca Fermana, founded from the experience of the Sgalippa family, gained over more than a century of hard and exciting work in its own vineyards.
To search and experiment more and more innovative solutions is a constant that characterizes them. And what most distinguishes them is a precise and careful production philosophy based on the environment, a prerequisite for the achievement of genuine wines, natural expression of the land.
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C.da Serra del Tesoro 85020
Ginestra (Potenza)
In the charming Contrada Serra del Tesoro between Ginestra and Venosa, in the very hearth of Vulture, Azienda Agricola Laluce winery softens the rigor of its modern architecture with the colors of...
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Località S. Pietro, 2 15060
Tassarolo (Alessandria)
San Pietro Estate is one of the historic companies of production of Gavi DOCG Wine, situated on the Hills of Tasarolo 300 meters above sea level. It covers an area of 60 hectares, of which 30 are...
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via Capro, 23 06031
Bevagna (Perugia)
The seat of the company, founded in 1964, is located in Bevagna, in Capro locality, where the founder Domenico Benincasa is committed in the pioneering work of the modern cultivation of the...
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Via Ibola, 24 47015
Modigliana (Forlì e Cesena)
Azienda Agricola Villa Papiano, situated in Modigliana, extends on the south slope of Mount Chioda at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level from the mountain to the bottom of the valley, to...
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Strada di Strove, 33 53035
Monteriggioni (Siena)
At the foot of the Montagnola Senese, the Castel Pietraio Farm is located in the town of Monteriggioni in the area of the Colli Senesi. The 153 hectares that encircle the medieval castle are...
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C.da Reale 66051
Cupello (Chieti)
Cupello–Montalfano, in the sweet harmony of these Hills of Abruzzo, under the sky cleaned by the sea breeze, the vineyards of Di Stefano Winery grow. Vines have their roots among the generous...
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Strada San Martino, 7 14036
Moncalvo (Asti)
The story of Cascina Valeggia is not traceable from historical documents but only from the tales handed down from father to son.Cascina Valeggia is located in Moncalvo, a village of Piedmont in...
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via Videlle, 2 25080
Puegnago sul Garda (Brescia)
Chiaretto, Groppello and Lugana are the three great wines that tell Garda and the passion of the Pasini family, who cultivates its vineyards in Valtnesi and Lugana. In the San Giovanni farm, on...
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località Il Palagio 53034
Colle di Val d'Elsa (Siena)
Already owned by the Marquises Matteucci, the company was purchased in 1979 by the Zonin family that has made the transformation from its mainly cereal–olive original stance, into the current...
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via 4 Novembre, 56 31028
Vazzola (Treviso)
Donna Caterina farm was founded and established in the area among the river Piave and the Hills of Conegliano. Situated in Vazzola, a plain and fertil soil, suited to viticulture, the company is...
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via Bari, 39 53045
Montepulciano (Siena)
The company was founded in late 2000 and is located between Cortona and Montepulciano in the hills that face the village. The soil structure is made of tuff with small parts of clay that outcrop...
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via Ronchi, 5 33048
San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine)
Azienda Ronco del Gnemiz does not love fashions nor trends and has worked for years to refine the results obtained, sometimes in captivity, with tenacity and stubbornness. At Azienda Ronco del...
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via Cristoforo Colombo, 44 71048
Stornarella (Foggia)
the Primis Farm was founded in 2003 in Stornarella, in the province of Foggia, by two young engineers, Nicola Selano, agronomist, and Gianni Mauriello, enotechnician. Conceptually, Primis stands...
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via San Piero di Sotto, 1 50026
San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Firenze)
The Corsini family is one of the oldest and most important noble Italian families, honored in Spain with the title of “Pari” and in Italy of that of Princes, hence the name of the company....
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Via Aso, 47 63020
Ortezzano (Fermo)
Sgaly is a modern organic winery of the Marca Fermana, founded from the experience of the Sgalippa family, gained over more than a century of hard and exciting work in its own vineyards. To search...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA