The best wineries in Lazio.
There, where the Tiber valley is dominated by Mount Soratte, green hills decorated by lush vineyards stretch.
It is in this area, where the Santa Lucina Estate extends, where a sweet wine is produced. It is the municipality of Poggio Mirteto, that has been hosting this winery since 1979. It is the Colantuono family, who strongly wanted to affirm the goodness of the Sabine wine, in Italy and beyond. The Santa Lucia Estate stretches for 45 hectares that, knowing how to cultivate knowledge and love for farming, have proved to be excellent for the production of different types of wine, a wine high quality: Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Cabernet, Alicante, Carignano, Falanghina, Sauvignon, Malvasia.
The estate has been belonging to the same family for generations. The only one heir and current owner is Marco Carpineti, who, in 1986, driven by the desire to live in the nature, decided to move exclusively, and in first person, in the farming company owned by his family, with the aim of changing its production philosophy. In effect, he began to transform the methods of grape production and to market the wines obtained. The most significant change was undoubtedly the adoption, in 1994, of the methods of organic farming, fruit of the desire to create really healthy products. In 1997, after the three years required for the conversion, the company was recognized as Organic by the institute of control of Soil and Health with corporate code recognition IT ASS 2368 and has been working for more than 14 years in strict compliance with the Community rules on organic farming. For the care of the plants and the processing of raw materials, in effect, herbicides, chemical fertilizers and synthetic products are not used. To better respect the environment and for a more high–quality product, in most of the estate works on the soil are not carried out, but weeds are kept under control through repeated mowings. The company currently consists of approximately 52.5 acres of property, of which more or less 41 cultivated with vineyards, and 11.5 with olive groves. It is situated at an altitude ranging from 200 to 450 meters above sea level in the locality of Cape Le Mole, Casale, Pezze di Ninfa and SAN PIETRO in the town of Cori, an ancient town in Lazio dating back to the fourth century BC which is located south of Rome. The area, situated on the slopes of the Lepine mountains facing south–west, has a cool climate in summer and mild in winter, very favorable to the cultivation of vines and olive trees. The soil is of volcanic origin, is rich in structure, particularly tuff, in the lowest part, hence the name of one of the Hills: Tufaliccio, while in the highest part it has a constituent calcareous skeleton. In Capo Le Mole vineyards grow on five other hills, besides the already mentioned Tufaliccio: Collesanti, Colle Paolino, Vignale della Selva, Costa Filippani and Casa Vecchia. In Pezze di Ninfa locality there is a unique plot, lying on the side of the mountain, with a very strong slope and rich in limestone, that is currently being renovated. In San Pietro locality the vineyards stretch over volcanic soils with gentle slopes. The white grape varieties grown have always been: Bellone, Arciprete Bianco (Bellone biotype), Malvasia Puntinata, Trebbiano and two varieties of Greco grapes, known locally as Moro and Giallo, almost disappeared in the area. Those with red berries are: Nero Buono di Cori, Montepulciano, Cesanese and Sangiovese. The vines are for 30% over 25 years old, 50% about 10 years old and for the rest 5 years old, on average. The density of plants per hectare varies from 1,300, for the oldest vineyards, to 5,000, for the most recent ones.
The new winery, almost completed, appropriate to the company’s growing needs, at the moment is booming. Now, there is substantial space for processing, storage, fining and maturation of the product, as well as for the reception of guests and tastings. The inclusion in the production phase of cutting–edge technologies and new wooden barrels of different sizes are giving significant results.
The olive groves in the locality of Capo Le Mole with an extension of 9 hectares and in the locality of Casale with 2.5 hectares, are made from ancient plants of the Itrana variety. From the produced olives we get, through cold extraction, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, certified as Organic, too.
In order to obtain products that meet more and more current market trends and with respect of the land, the company employs the qualified experience of professionals in the wine industry, cultivation and marketing.
By appointment, we will be pleased to put at your disposal an expert so as to show what mentioned above, as well as to make you taste the products.
The Villa Gianna winery expresses in Lazio the experience of the pioneering work of three generations and a special love for the pontine lands.
Technology, the quality of products, the experience of the founders, make of the Villa Gianna winery a company of a unique value, run by the Giannini family as authentic pioneers of viticulture in the pontine plain.
Since the 80s the quality experimentation, never stopped, has generated new cultivars, highlighting a special environment for the grapes because enriched by the continuous exposure to the sun (from dawn to dusk) and the special brackish essence typical of the pontine area. All the vineyards are nestled among the promontory, the Circeo National Park, the Ninfa hills and the Lepine and Aurunci mountains.
The Giannini family are now the master vintners of Circeo, who have been giving amazing wines that convey the emotion of working in the vineyards and the typical fragrances that enhance the area of origin.
The company is composed of four vineyards, of which two are obtained in the area of the Roman Castles with DOC, one belonging to the Aprilia DOC area and the other enrolled in the Lazio IGT register. Is cultivated by the method of organic agriculture, therefore without the use of chemical synthesis, both for treatments and for fertilization. Alternatively, copper is used (max 5kg per hectare per year), and sulfur, as well as the Bacillus thuringiensis against the moth, in case of necessity, after checking the effective presence of parasite eggs on the grapes. The vineyard are grown with espalier method with pruning of guyot or spurred cordon type. The plant density is of 4,000 plants per hectare. The grape varieties are Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Sauvignon, Malvasia Puntinata, Pignoletto, Vermentino, Grechetto of Orvieto, Chardonnay, Viognier, Falanghina, all with rootstock SO4 for a total of 38. Irrigation is not practiced, only in case of emergency. The yield per hectare is limited thanks to the lack of any type of forcing.
Il Quadrifoglio farm began producing wine in 2000 after having been for many years a producer of grapes, which were bestowed by local wineries. The idea took shape over time thanks to a renewed passion of the new generations and to a series of experiments that helped to understand the potential of the territory. The upgrading of old viticultural practices that had gone lost in time, combined with proper training on modern winemaking techniques, led us to develop awareness and sensitivity towards wine.
Wine as understanding of the potential of a territory. Wine as an element of exchange among people, as a tool to communicate to others your own interiority, such as the ability to share the most simple and profound emotions, just as has always been for men. Wine as a possibility for the local people to regain a role of centrality in the making of the products of their land.
For Antonio Santarelli Casale del Giglio was the family estate, where as a child he spent weekends and tried the first rides with its motorbike. But, when he was twenty–five and he began to work on the farm with his father Dino, understood how those reclaimed land of the Pontine Marshes are a virgin area on which to try all possible. The absence of a winemaking past became, in this way, a crucial stimulus to the maximum degree of freedom to innovate. He called at his side ampelographers and university researchers, and in 1985, with his father Dino, gave life to a project that planted on his land almost 60 different experimental grape varieties.
The patterns of vine cultivation to which this research are inspired are those practiced in Bordeaux, in Australia and in California, which are exposed to the influences of the territories of the Coast, exactly like the Pontine Marshes, which benefits of the influence of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
According to the philosophy of Casale del Giglio, the future development of Italian viticulture lies not only in the consolidation of picture of areas of great tradition, but also in obtaining, through appropriate viticultural and winemaking choices, a production of high quality, with the right value for money, in territories still poorly understood from the point of view of their wine–growing and wine–making potential.
A complex and risky adventure, never attempted in such a scientific way, of which the oenologist of the company Paolo Tiefenthaler has become an interpreter.
An adventure that pays for the bravery with the first important results on Syrah and Petit Verdot red grapes, and white grapes like Viognier, Chardonnay and Sauvignon, which give rise to different labels from a single grape variety or by blending, always at an interesting value for money.
Casale del Giglio was founded in 1967 by Dr. Berardino Santarelli, original of Amatrice, and is located in the Pontine Marshes resort in Le Ferriere locality, in the Municipality of Aprilia, in the province of Latina, about 50 kilometers south of Rome. This area is represented, compared to other areas of Lazio and other regions of Italy, a territory to be explored from the point of view of wine.
In the mid–nineteenth century in Pantelleria, Andrea I Pandolfo, great–grandfather of the current owner Gabriele, began to plant vines and to produce wines made from Zibibbo grapes.
In 1880, Andrea I sold the small vineyards in the island and bought 60 hectares of virgin land in northern Tunisia and precisely in Khanguet Gare, in Cape Bon.
The first vines were planted, the first grapes harvested and, at the early twentieth century, Andrea I and his son Giovanni started producing quality wines in their own winery, so that from the port of Tunis ships full of their wine to serve the best markets in France left.
In 1938, Andrea II, son of Giovanni, only sixteen years old, took over the company and continued with courage and effort to grow the reputation and the quality of the wines. But a terrible disease, phylloxera, arrived in Tunisia destroying all the vineyards of the company. The dry grapes were burned and the coal produced was sold in the market of Tunis.
They were very hard years. From France, the first resistant to disease grafted cuttings arrived, and the red and desolate lands began to color again of green vine leaves and generous bunches of grapes.
On 12th May 1964, the then President of Tunisia, Harbib Bourguiba, with an ordinance entered in the history, expropriated all the assets and properties of foreigners in Tunisia. Suddenly, all the work and sacrifices of a life were canceled and the Pandolfo family had to leave the country and divide between France and Italy. Andrea II, then 42–year–old, with his wife Elena and his sons decided to come to Italy to buy a small farm, the 1720 of Via Renibbio, near Terracina, to start again to work that hated and beloved land and to collect, with the harvest of 1968, the first grapes to make wine.
The first customers, the first bottles with handwritten labels, the first chestnut barrels and the winery started to enter among the first wine realities in the Pontine area. In 1976 he Andrea II Pandolfo died and his sons, flanked by their mother Elena, decided to continue the dream that had began 150 years before.
In this way, the "Sant’Andrea" company was founded, which reminds of the name of its founder. Currently, the company is run by Gabriele Pandolfo with his wife Enza, his son Andrea III and his sister–in–law Ornella; all aided by the constant and vigilant present of mother Elena.
In recent years, the winery has been completely renewed and adapted to the most modern technologies to obtain quality wines.
Soft presses to get sweet and precious must, small steel tanks with temperature control to enhance and to better preserve the aroma of wines, small autoclaves for the production of special and peculiar sparkling wines, ultimate generation vinificators to extract from red grapes intense color and tannins, oak barrels to give the wine aromas and unique features, a modern bottling line, finally, to capture all this in a precious bottle.
However, all the efforts made in the winery are made with the specific task of assisting in the best way what nature gives us in the vineyard.
Casale Mattia is named after the resort of the same name Colle Mattia, a territory, among other things, full of archaeological finds. The company stands on the foundations of an ancient Roman villa, of which today you can see only a tank of water used until a few years ago by the inhabitants of the area.
The company’s project, begun in 1995, aimed at the re–evaluation of the territory through a constant search for the quality of its wines, recovering the traditional and authentic characteristics of Frascati that made it famous in the world.
The wines of Casale Mattia, rich in history and tradition, are the result of a constant commitment that starts in the vineyards, through the recovery of native grape varieties, the use of substances with low environmental impact and an accurate selection of grapes during the harvest fractionated by hand.
The wines thus obtained are then bottled with a sterile plant in cold according to the needs of the market and sold in major world markets. More than 70% of production, in effect, is sold abroad.
Quality, innovation, tradition and service to customers are therefore the main elements of the corporate policy.
The winery is located on the Fontana Candida hillcock in the center of the Agro Tuscolano area, on the hills of Lazio, in a centuries–old farmhouse built in the area where once there was an imposing Roman villa probably belonged to the poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus. The vineyards cover about 97 hectares in the heart of the DOC of Frascati. In the cellars, in the vineyards, everywhere, you can feel the passion and the culture of wine that have made the name of Fontana Candida the most famous and renowned of the quality Frascati in the world.
Azienda Vitivinicola Donnardea is located in a beautiful corner of the territory of Lazio, 20 km from Rome. In the heart of the Roman countryside, Nature itself has created a landscape capable of amazing for its variety, its colors and its most precious treasure: WINE.
Vineyards as gardens and gardens that anticipate vineyards, in the hilly – almost rhythmic – landscape around Donnardea that alternates vineyards on rolling hills and lush ditches, among luxuriant forests of centuries–old cork trees. And then, again hills and vineyards ...
The lands of Donnardea are historically suited to viticulture and extend over an area of about 80 hectares. The conformity of the soil is of volcanic origin, characterized mainly by potassium, phosphorous and calcium, which contribute to a good agronomic fertility and freshness of the fund.
The Mottura estate covers 130 hectares in an area rich in natural resources, among the clay cracks of Civitella d’Agliano and the Tiber valley.
This area, free from urban and industrial settlements, still offers wild landscapes, dotted with forests, lakes and streams, in a scenario of unspoiled nature, despite the proximity of big cities such as Rome and Florence.
The estate has been belonging since 1933 to the Mottura family, who wanted to preserve its rich natural heritage. In the early sixties, the modernization of the company began, from sharecropping it passed to direct management, and the family began to search for the optimal use of the land where the vine had its own habitat.
The wine vocation of these hills had been known since 1292, when on the Land Registry records of Orvieto this was defined among the best areas for the production of the wine of the same name.
The vineyards, old of many generations, were set up with the Etruscan system with vines "married" to tall trees that supported them.
In the renewal of the company the old systems were gradually replaced by specialized vineyards, using structures and modern standards, while respecting the environment, to cover the current 36 hectares of vineyards, every year new plants ensure the continuity of the level of quality achieved.
The Casale Marchese farm, with an area of over 50 hectares devoted mostly to the cultivation of vines, located in the heart of the Frascati DOC and overlooks one of the most beautiful landscapes of Rome and the Tuscolano district, where vineyards alternate with olive trees. The soil is of volcanic origin, ideal for this type of culture, thanks also to the hilly soil.
The grapevine has always been cultivated in this area. Marco Porzio Catone, said "Il Censore", a distinguished citizen of Tuscolano of 230 BC, advised to plant in these lands because it was an "optima loco". Therefore, one of the first places in the world where our wine was produced. The Frascati DOC is produced in the hills surrounding Rome, the area known as "Castelli Romani". The territory is located under Mount Tuscolo, where once the town of Tusculum and the town of Frascati from which the designation of origin is named.
The cultivation techniques, adopted in the company, comply fully with the principles of viticulture of superior quality, respecting the environment and the society. The vineyards of Casale Marchese are grown, in large part, with spurred cordon method, with high density of plants per hectare (4,000–5,000) and short pruning; it allows us to better concentrate the chemical–physical characteristics of quality products, in the few clusters per plant (1.5–2kg).
Furthermore, the management of the crop is done by following the rules of integrated production, with the exclusive use of products with low environmental impact.
The variety of the vineyards of Casale Marchese are those that are traditionally used for the production of Frascati wine: Malvasia Puntinata, Malvasia di Candia, Trebbiano Toscano, Greco, Bombino, Bellone. Recently, international varieties like Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc have been planted.
The Company Poggio Le Volpi was founded in the 90s by the brilliant idea of Felice Mergè.
The young oenologist, son of Armando Mergè, represents the third generation of a family strain that has Mario Mergè as founder, who in the 20s began his working business engaging mainly in wine and olive growing and marketing of products.
At the numerous second generation he handed down his experiences of living and working that gained new vigor and is completed, finally, in the bold initiative of his nephew Felice, well supported by the concrete and active impulse of his father Armando.
It was founded, in this way, Poggio Le Volpi, with a picture of a very high level for the quality and sophistication of its wines, which are precious gems that ennoble the pedigree of the company and which have earned appreciations in the refined and exclusive context of wines of niche.
La Visciola company is a family–run farm, consisting of three plots of land (whose plantings date back to the sixties) of about 5000 square meters each. The soil looks loose, deep, with high presence of limestone debris.
The double Guyot pruning is implemented, with a production of about 5/6000 bottles.
The agricultural company has decided, several years ago, to make use of the biodynamic method of agriculture. The attention to the management of land has become a fundamental part of the management of the vineyard. In this perspective of prevention, in the years, they have totally replaced synthetic products with only sulfur and copper, used in low quantities. To date there are not mineral fertilizers, herbicides and systemic treatments. The main works concern the sowing of the vine lands with green manure with various plant species and the professional distribution of the biodynamic preparations of Carlo Noro.
Michele Lorenzetti follows the vinification in a natural way.
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via Santa Lucia, 1 02047
Poggio Mirteto (Rieti)
There, where the Tiber valley is dominated by Mount Soratte, green hills decorated by lush vineyards stretch. It is in this area, where the Santa Lucina Estate extends, where a sweet wine is...
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Cori (Latina)
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Strada Maremmana, fraz. Borgo San DOnato 04010
Sabaudia (Latina)
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via del Cavaliere, 1414 04010
Latina (Latina)
The company is composed of four vineyards, of which two are obtained in the area of the Roman Castles with DOC, one belonging to the Aprilia DOC area and the other enrolled in the Lazio IGT...
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via Alessandro III,5 fraz. Doganella di Ninfa 04010
Cisterna di Latina (Latina)
Il Quadrifoglio farm began producing wine in 2000 after having been for many years a producer of grapes, which were bestowed by local wineries. The idea took shape over time thanks to a renewed...
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Strada Cisterna-Nettuno, km 13, fraz Le Ferriere 04010
Latina (Latina)
For Antonio Santarelli Casale del Giglio was the family estate, where as a child he spent weekends and tried the first rides with its motorbike. But, when he was twenty–five and he began to work...
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via Renibbio, 1720 fraz. Borgo Vodice 04010
Terracina (Latina)
In the mid–nineteenth century in Pantelleria, Andrea I Pandolfo, great–grandfather of the current owner Gabriele, began to plant vines and to produce wines made from Zibibbo grapes. In 1880,...
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via Principe Amedeo, 19/23 00044
Frascati (Roma)
Casale Mattia is named after the resort of the same name Colle Mattia, a territory, among other things, full of archaeological finds. The company stands on the foundations of an ancient Roman...
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Via Fontana Parata, 66 0004
Velletri (Roma)
Via Fontana Candida, 11 00040
Monte Porzio Catone (Roma)
The winery is located on the Fontana Candida hillcock in the center of the Agro Tuscolano area, on the hills of Lazio, in a centuries–old farmhouse built in the area where once there was an...
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Via Fosso di Valle Caia, 7 00040
Ardea (Roma)
Azienda Vitivinicola Donnardea is located in a beautiful corner of the territory of Lazio, 20 km from Rome. In the heart of the Roman countryside, Nature itself has created a landscape capable of...
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P.za Unità d'Italia, 12 01020
Civitella d'Agliano (Viterbo)
The Mottura estate covers 130 hectares in an area rich in natural resources, among the clay cracks of Civitella d’Agliano and the Tiber valley. This area, free from urban and industrial...
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Via di Vermicino, 68 00044
Frascati (Roma)
The Casale Marchese farm, with an area of over 50 hectares devoted mostly to the cultivation of vines, located in the heart of the Frascati DOC and overlooks one of the most beautiful landscapes...
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Via Colle Pisano, 27 00040
Monte Porzio Catone (Roma)
The Company Poggio Le Volpi was founded in the 90s by the brilliant idea of Felice Mergè. The young oenologist, son of Armando Mergè, represents the third generation of a family strain that has...
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Via Carcassano 03010
Frosinone (Frosinone)
La Visciola company is a family–run farm, consisting of three plots of land (whose plantings date back to the sixties) of about 5000 square meters each. The soil looks loose, deep, with high...
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