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The story of Vis Amoris began in 2003 when Rossana Zappa and her husband Roberto Tozzi decided to buy a small vineyard of the size of slightly more than 2000 square meters, already implanted in Pigato, in the hills of Imperia in the hamlet of Caramagna. The first results were immediately so encouraging to convince them gradually to buy small plots of land in the surrounding areas, snatching them from the state of abandonment in which they had poured for too many years. Above all, Vis Amoris, the power of love, their love, that power that mitigates fatigue, follows passions and indicates the way to fulfill a dream. Currently, the only variety grown in the company is Pigato, available in two different types of wine, one of which takes the name of Sogno (Dream) and the other the name of the vineyard from which it originates.
At the gates of the town of Sarzana, situated in the countryside and surrounded by vineyards, Tenuta La Ghiaia maintains the integrity of the original location, restored according to the canons of the ancient architectures. The vineyards are cultivated under organic management, stretch for five and a half hectares and are planted with Vermentino, Sangiovese, Merlot, Vermentino Nero, Massaretta, Albarolo and white Malvasia for wines that smell of the sea: Vermentino Atys, Rosso Undicinodi and the Vermentino Ithaa selection. A careful selection in the vineyard gives life to the production of grapes for Colli di Luni DOC wines of quality, available to buy directly in the Estate in the cozy tasting room of the winery. Moreover, extra virgin olive oil is produced.
Guests have access to five charming suites, equipped with every comfort and furnished in style and good taste. At the request of customers, a gym and guided tours of the winery and in the vineyards of the Estate are available for a full immersion of relaxation. And yet, the organization of events and special evenings make a visit to the farm a must.
The Natale Sassarini Winery has been, at the end of the 60s, one of the first wineries of the Cinque Terre to have an important role in the production and distribution of prestigious DOC wines of the place.
The company has become over the years a point of reference for some small vinegrowers, who confer here all their production.
The Sassarini winery produces DOC, IGT wines, Sciacchetrà and table wines. In addition to wines, it produces and supplies other products from Liguria, such as oil, salted anchovies in oil and tuna in oil, olives, capers, various sauces and vinegars.
As has happened in a widespread manner in the rest of the Colli di Luni, even in this cozy productive reality, just a stone’s throw from the old town of Sarzana, the 2008 harvest was lavish in terms of quality but scarce in terms of quantity. Andrea Kihlgren, therefore, has preferred to sacrifice either the Fontananera, a Merlot–based blend, and the selection of Vermentino Poggi Alti. In the latter case, base Vermentino takes advatage, that receives the contribution of the grapes normally intended for its older brother. We are in the house of a family of ancient winemaking tradition, it is therefore not surprising that the presence of certain varieties may appear innovative, while, instead, it has taken roots in these soils since not suspicious times. Clear examples are: Giuncro, an unusual blend of Tocai and Sauvignon, or Ghiartolo, a superb single–variety Merlot, which for years has been at the top of the company line and that this year has beaten itself.
The productive activity of the company makes use of modern technology while preserving the simplicity, in line with the tradition, which has so far characterized the workings.
The company currently owns and enjoys the availability of a set of land plots in the locality of Possaitara – Chiappella (town of Riomaggiore) that make up the more extensive plot.
While other properties, to a lesser extent, are located in the coast of Tramonti, in the locality of Schiara (municipality of La Spezia) and in other areas of the town of Riomaggiore: Bargone, Casen di Qui, Casen di Là, Val di Serra.
It continues in the winery located in the old town of Riomaggiore, partly carved into the rock, where the wine ready to bottling is preserved partly in stainless steel vats and partly in barriques.
A corner of the room has been equipped to preserve the testimonies of the rural culture, such as tools that, unchanged for centuries, have accompanied and allowed the work in the countryside and in the wine cellars.
Therefore, the bottles ready for commercialization are stored in a special air conditioned room in such a way that does not undergo sudden changes in temperature.
The business plan includes, in the coming years, many interventions in the recovery of the territory, understood as a reconstruction of the terraces collapsed where to plant new vineyards, citrus, herbs and fruit trees, and in the recovery of some cottages to be restored in their characteristic of rural productivity and to be prepared for the different objectives that the company has prearranged.
It was Daniele Pino, grandfather of the current owners, to start the company after World War II, redeeming the first vineyards conducted up to that moment in sharecropping. It was, then, his son Gino to continue the work, but the wine produced at the time was just enough for serving within the inn that the family run in the village. The real activity began only in 1990 with the passage of the company to Maria Antonella Pino, who still leads it in collaboration with his brother Mauro. The link with tradition is realized by the exclusive use of the vines of the territory, with a little curiosity linked to the historic presence in the area of the white Moscato.
A relatively new reality in the wine scenery of Liguria, founded in 2002 thanks to the strong partnership established between Fausto De Andreis and the Crosa family of Vergagni. The company currently owns about 7 hectares of vineyards situated in the best exposures of the hinterland of Albenga and a well–equipped cellar. The production is oriented exclusively on the traditional grape varieties of the West Liguran Coast, vinified with the care needed to preserve the integrity and originality of the varietal character of the grapes from which the wines come.
Pigato, the main grape variety of the area, whose name comes from the small specks that appear on berries when mature, is available in two different types, and finds its highest expression in Spigau Crociata, a wine with the interesting prerogative of a long evolution over time. The range is completed with a small amount of fine Ormeasco, identified as Macajolo.
Azienda Agricola Ottaviano Lambruschi was founded in the middle of the 70s, when Ottaviano Lambruschi decided to leave his job in the mines of Carrara, and to purchase 2 hectares of wood in Costa Marina locality, in the municipality of Castelnuovo Magra.
With the help of his Brother Alessandro, and with a lot of determination, they created a Vineyard and a Wine.
In the 80s his son Fabio, graduated as agrotechnician, joined passion and new production techniques to create a modern and rational winery, without neglecting the tradition.
Over time, the company acquired new vineyards in valuable areas of viticulture in Liguria including Sarticola: a historic farm already famous in Roman times.
The ongoing research, combined with great love for growing and wine–making, characterize a product of the highest quality, which well represents the aspirations of the company.
The company owns 5 hectares of vineyards and buys grapes from local farmers of his confidence. The vineyards, situated on the hills surrounding the area, due to the characteristic shape of terraces, do not allow the use of mechanical means, then Mario and farmers work their land manually. Vineyards are at the sea and harvest is handmade.
Despite being a small company, the winery is equipped with all the most modern facilities, a pneumatic press for the pressing of white grapes, barrels–fridge for wine fermentation at a controlled temperature, and barrels for the aging of red wine.
Mario and Santina bring passion and care in all stages of production, from cultivation, to vinification and bottling, to constantly improve their product and to make it known even outside the production area.
Since when, in 1995, was attributed to the wines of the territory the "Colline di Levanto" DOC, the company’s wines have been awarded in the Mountain Wines International Competition sponsored by Cervim and several times at the Douja d’Or National Competition sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Asti.
The Baia Del Sole winery, located near the archaeological ruins of the ancient Luni di Ortonovo, derives its prestige from the lands where the native Vermentino has its most probable origin.
Since ancient times, even under the control of the Ligurians, the port of Luni was used as a mooring for merchant ships both by the Etruscans and by the Greeks.
To the latter, the first consecration of the port to the goddess Selene is ascribed. Luni, which gave its name to Lunigiana, was an ancient Roman city that is currently located on the border between Liguria and Tuscany, in the town of Ortonovo. Today only ruins remain of what was once a powerful maritime city.
Founded by the Romans in 177 BC, to establish an outpost against the Apuan Ligurians in their war of conquest of the Italian peninsula, Luni became famous for its harbor, from which shiploads full of marble of the Apuan Alps, Apennine forests’ timber, cheese and local wines, praised by Martial and Pliny, left.
In the Augustan age, Luni knew a further period of splendor, and subsequently in the Julius–Claudian period, thanks to the nearby marble, turned into monumental city. In the fifth century it was chosen as the seat of a bishop, a sign of the importance of the city, which in 272 gave even a Pope: Eutychian.
Soldano is a municipality in the Ponente Ligure area on the shores of the stream Verbone, which gives the name to this small valley. The area of Galeae, where the Ka’ Manciné company produces one of its most important wines, was considered one of the prisons of that time, where detainees were deported and left to themselves, hence the name. It is located about 400 meters above sea level in a natural amphitheater with south east position. In front, on top of a hill, the vineyard Beragna stands, the most historic vineyard of the company, dating back to 1876, with its ancient stocks of Rossese di Dolceacqua, supported even today by its old "scarasse": support poles normally used in the vineyard. It is here where the Anfosso dei Mancinei family fulfilled his most beautiful dream, to give life back to what, in past times, the founder of Mancinei had created through hardships that are unimaginable today. The Manciné name derives from Anfosso Pietro who, being left–handed in fact, was distinguished from the various Pietro in town. To the name, the word KA’ was added, meaning "house", with the use of "K" that commemorates the history of the Saracen and the modern age in which we live. In this land, where for centuries vines have been cultivated, Rossese stems, called in 1972 Rossese di Dolceacqua owing its name to the most representative, but not the most important, village. One of the strongest villages from the qualitative and quantitative point of view was Soldano.
The history of this cozy farm begins in the mid 80s, a period in which Pier Luigi Neri, electrical engineer, inherited a nineteenth–century house and a plot of land in the hills north of Sarzana. A lover of nature, he started as a hobby to devote himself to viticulture, helped and supported by his wife Maria Antonietta Bacciarelli and their children, at the time still students. Today are the children, Alessandro and Davide, to lead with great effort the family winery and manage a diverse range of products, varied and reliable. Justified absent, this year, will be Passito dei Neri: the 2000 vintage will rest for some time more in the cellar.
The career of Ivan Giuliani started in Terenzuola, the family farm where he took his first steps into the world of wine, already since the first half of the 90s with the recovery of old vines that his grandfather Luigi, returning from New York because of the crisis of 1929, had purchased in the Municipality of Fosdinovo. The collaboration, started some years ago with his friend Marco Nicolini, famous local farmer entrepreneur, gave further impetus to a project that involves him also in Cinque Terre, in the small company initiated by the cardiologist Evasio Pasini.
The company was founded in 1993 thanks to its founder Roberto Petacchi, who made of the passion for the land of his grandfather, Pietro Giacomelli, his job.
The Giacomelli farm is located in Castelnuovo Magra, in the heart of Colli di Luni, where the land, thanks to its precious minerals, the mild temperature due to the proximity of the sea, is capable of producing wines of excellent quality. In this wonderful plot of land all the wines of Azienda Agricola Giacomelli are produced: Colli di Luni DOC Vermentino, Colli di Luni DOC Vermentino "Boboli", Colli di Luni DOC Vermentino "Le Pianacce", Colli di Luni DOC Red, IGT Golfo Dei Poeti White, IGT Golfo dei Poeti Red e IGT Golfo dei Poeti Raisin "Persichino".
A production of wines characterized by different terroirs, diverse grape varieties, but all grown with the same passion for the land and the territory.
The path of this talented winemaker arises in the Cinque Terre, where now a large part of his production is located, to arrive in 2003 to a project called Prima Terra. The harmony of his wines comes from many small elements, apparently disintegrated, that only he manages skillfully to mold as a good orchestra conductor. Even the name imposed to wines follows the originality of Walter.
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Strada Privata Molino Javé, 23 18100
Imperia (Imperia)
The story of Vis Amoris began in 2003 when Rossana Zappa and her husband Roberto Tozzi decided to buy a small vineyard of the size of slightly more than 2000 square meters, already implanted in...
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Via Falcinello, 127
Sarzana (La Spezia)
At the gates of the town of Sarzana, situated in the countryside and surrounded by vineyards, Tenuta La Ghiaia maintains the integrity of the original location, restored according to the canons of...
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Località Pian del Corso, 1
Monterosso al Mare (La Spezia)
The Natale Sassarini Winery has been, at the end of the 60s, one of the first wineries of the Cinque Terre to have an important role in the production and distribution of prestigious DOC wines of...
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via Santa Caterina, 6 19038
Sarzana (La Spezia)
As has happened in a widespread manner in the rest of the Colli di Luni, even in this cozy productive reality, just a stone’s throw from the old town of Sarzana, the 2008 harvest was lavish in...
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via Signorini, 91 19107
Riomaggiore (La Spezia)
The productive activity of the company makes use of modern technology while preserving the simplicity, in line with the tradition, which has so far characterized the workings.The company currently...
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via Podestà, 31 16030
Castiglione Chiavarese (Genova)
It was Daniele Pino, grandfather of the current owners, to start the company after World War II, redeeming the first vineyards conducted up to that moment in sharecropping. It was, then, his son...
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Vico Fierè, 1C 17031
Albenga (Savona)
A relatively new reality in the wine scenery of Liguria, founded in 2002 thanks to the strong partnership established between Fausto De Andreis and the Crosa family of Vergagni. The company...
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Via Olmarello, 28 19033
Castelnuovo Magra (La Spezia)
Azienda Agricola Ottaviano Lambruschi was founded in the middle of the 70s, when Ottaviano Lambruschi decided to leave his job in the mines of Carrara, and to purchase 2 hectares of wood in Costa...
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via Zoppi, 11 19015
Levanto (La Spezia)
The company owns 5 hectares of vineyards and buys grapes from local farmers of his confidence. The vineyards, situated on the hills surrounding the area, due to the characteristic shape of...
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via Forlino, 3 19034
Ortonovo (La Spezia)
The Baia Del Sole winery, located near the archaeological ruins of the ancient Luni di Ortonovo, derives its prestige from the lands where the native Vermentino has its most probable origin....
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Piazza 8 Luoghi, 36 18036
Soldano (Imperia)
Soldano is a municipality in the Ponente Ligure area on the shores of the stream Verbone, which gives the name to this small valley. The area of Galeae, where the Ka’ Manciné company produces...
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via Groppolo, 7 19038
Sarzana (La Spezia)
The history of this cozy farm begins in the mid 80s, a period in which Pier Luigi Neri, electrical engineer, inherited a nineteenth–century house and a plot of land in the hills north of...
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via Salita Castello, 137 19017
Riomaggiore (La Spezia)
The career of Ivan Giuliani started in Terenzuola, the family farm where he took his first steps into the world of wine, already since the first half of the 90s with the recovery of old vines that...
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Via Palvotrisia, 134 19033
Castelnuovo Magra (La Spezia)
The company was founded in 1993 thanks to its founder Roberto Petacchi, who made of the passion for the land of his grandfather, Pietro Giacomelli, his job. The Giacomelli farm is located in...
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Via Trarcantu, 25 19017
Riomaggiore (La Spezia)
The path of this talented winemaker arises in the Cinque Terre, where now a large part of his production is located, to arrive in 2003 to a project called Prima Terra. The harmony of his wines...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA