Wineries

Fontezoppa

The Fontezoppa company is a strong statement of will, already in its name, that, although harsh, refers to the ancient source that was located where the vineyards are today. A tenacious desire of bonds with names, feelings, memories that those lands and those spaces evoke, even with the stories that are told by those people who, from that land, know to have taken substance and soul.

Fontezoppa, today, is the result of a project that is not to be considered accomplished, but that has found its form in a winery, where essentiality tries to show how itself as simple harmony, where concrete, wood, steel, and even barrels, seem to have always been there, among those vines that change every day: from skinny branches to gems, to tender greens that are repeated in a symmetrical way down the hill.

and ... perhaps, it is understandable that the eyes of our entrepreneurs do not get tired of caressing these hills, their memories, of loving the names of the traditions. The vineyards are located in Civitanova and partly to Serrapetrona. Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet, Lacrima, but also Maceratino, Incrocio Bruni, Pecorino are the grape varieties planted around Civitanova Alta, just a gaze away from the sea.

Azienda Agricola Boccadigabbia di Elvidio Alessandri

Boccadigabbia was one of the "hundred farms" of the Bonaparte Administration of Civitanova, a vast estate that for over a century was an important model of modern, rational agriculture; as in all the farming estates of the Administration, in the old Boccadigabbia farmhouse we can see even today an old ceramic tile bearing the name of the farming estate surmounted by the Napoleonic crest of the crowned "N".

Boccadigabbia today covers an area of almost 10 hectares, all in vineyard. It is located in the district of Castelletta di Fontespina, on the hills that rise from the Adriatic Sea to the ancient town of Civitanova Alta.

Its favorable southern exposure and the mild climate tempered by the proximity of the sea, have always proven that Boccadigabbia is particularly suited to the cultivation of wine grapes.

At the end of the sixties, when it was decided to allocate the entire estate to the intensive cultivation of the vine, grape varieties at the time recommended for the production of local everyday wines were planted. Unfortunately, this led to the loss of the older varieties, descending directly by those planted in the nineteenth century by Ing. Hallaire, a French agronomist superintendent of Napoleon III.

To remedy this loss, in 1986 a program of renovation of the vineyard was launched, with the choice to replant French vines already cultivated like Cabernet, Merlot and Pinot Noir, in an attempt, now fully achieved, to reproduce the ancient and renowned quality of the grapes of the Bonaparte Administration.

Fontezoppa di Piero Luzi e C.