Italy

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... Continue reading→

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... Continue reading→

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... Continue reading→

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... Continue reading→

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... Continue reading→

San Giovanni al Natisone, Friuli Christian Patat is probably the person that can be best defined as a “cult negociant winemaker”. He doesn’t buy the grapes, except in very few cases, rather he spots and rents vineyards in the best areas of Friuli and turns them into jewels. For years it has chosen to vinify... Continue reading→