Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia Benjamin Bridge, a women-led trailblazing force in Canadian winemaking for over two decades, is dedicated to sustainability, community, and innovation. Its mandate centres on crafting exceptional wines that redefine industry norms. From the iconic Nova 7 to groundbreaking fermented-in-can sparkling wines, the winery consistently pushes boundaries, guided by values of integrity,...
Category: Producers
A complete list of wine producers imported by Artisanal Cellars. Use the navigation menu to select producers by country.
Fibbiano
Terricciola, Toscana In the nineties, when Tuscan winemakers were still pulling up “local blending grapes” to plant the so-called international varieties beloved by the Super Tuscan movement, the Cantoni family discovered a property that was full of precious old vines, including a vineyard that was planted in 1895. They brought in Sangiovese expert Professor Bandinelli,...
La Garagista
Barnard, Vermont La Garagista is located on Mount Hunger at the edge of the Chateauguay forrest in the Piedmont chain of hills in Barnard, Vermont. They produce terroir expressing alpine wine and ciders. The land has been part of small homestead farming for over two hundred years and Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber have owned...
SFUSOBUONO Bag in Box
Sfusobuono , Piemonte & Lombardia Sfusobuono has renewed a historically little-considered packaging for high quality products and by selecting small artisans of the vineyard, they have enhanced the bag in box making it beautiful, even when empty. Sfusobuono chooses winemakers who practice organic farming in the vineyard and those who use indigenous yeasts and a...
Palmento Costanzo
Passopisciaro, Etna, Sicilia A palmento is the traditional winemaking structure in Sicily. Regulations eventually led nearly all palmentos to be converted for other uses, such as for storage or restaurants, but since Palmento Costanzo is located within Mt Etna National Park, it remained untouched as a protected historical structure. Mimmo and Valeria are a Sicilian...
I Garagisti di Sorgono
Mandrolisai, Sardegna Sardegna, the second largest island in the Mediterranean, is geologically one of the oldest parts of Italy. It was once part of a mountain range that existed before the Alps and Apennines were formed and 150,000 years or so ago it was still connected to the Italian mainland. Now it sits 112 miles...
Tenute Dettori
Sennori, Sardegna To make natural wine is not a trend for Alessandro Dettori, but rather the soul of his family’s work since 1860. Alessandro was just a boy of 12 when he began to work with his grandfather. In Romangia, the region of northern Sardegna that includes Sorso and Sennori, the vineyards have been so...
Masseria Cuturi
Manduria, Puglia In 1881, the Countess Sabini brought as her dowry "barbatelle" cuttings of Primitivo when she married Don Tommasso. They planted the first primitivo vineyard in Manduria and began the story of this land as a treasured site for the grape. Named by Pliny as “the town full of vines,” Manduria was highly important...
Tempa di Zoè
Agropoli, Campania Tempa di Zoè is the latest reinvention of Bruno de Conciliis, an indispensable winemaker and cultural thinker from the Cilento region of Campania. In 1980, a devastating earthquake struck a young Bruno’s homeland. Already suffering from dwindling populations due to economic migration, several small towns physically collapsed in entirety. Bruno had studied art...
Terre Stregate
Guardia Sanframondi, Sannio, Campania Legend has it that witches from the village of Benevento gather around their smoking cauldron under a walnut tree on the banks of the river Calore. Thus the estate’s name,Terre Stregate: “haunted land.” Young Filomena Iacobucci and her brother Carlo, together with their parents, have 1000-year-old traditions from their region at...
Artigiano
Abruzzo This Artigiano wine comes from a little group of farmers working in the mountainous, rocky zone between the Sangro river and Terre di Chieti. The base of clay offers excellent water retention in this dry climate, and stony primary rocks lend the wine its refreshing minerality. These independent small farmers partner with Artisanal Cellars...
Tenuta Terraviva
Colline Teramane, Abruzzo Terraviva Winey was born in the late 1970’s in Colline Teramane appellation of Abruzzo. The vineyards, 22 hectares (54 acres) in Tortoreto, are framed by the Grand Sasso at one end and the Adriatic Sea at the other. Arranged like an amphitheater facing the sea, the vineyards are kissed by a climate...