Located in Northern Italy, Lombardy, Franciacorta may be a famous name on the world's wine stage but it is still a relatively young one one in historical terms. The area has earned significant approval from wine lowers and critics.

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But there are special requirements to be adhered to. In order to yield wines of indisputable quality, vineyards must be at least 15 years old. The average age of Ca' del Bosco's 207 hectares under vine is 21 years.

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Being among the pioneers of Franciacorta helped them because they have been able to plant their rows in the best wine areas. Ca' del Bosco owns its lands and closely monitors the grapevines row by row. 

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Ca' del Bosco is the world-class winery in terms of innovation, product marketing and quality. The unique "Ca' del Bosco Method" has brought its wines to the top of the wine-making market worldwide.

Rocca delle Macìe was established in 1973, when Italo Zingarelli – producer of Ettore Scola’s “We All Loved Each Other So Much”, and also of the wildly popular series of films featuring comedy duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (including “They Call Me Trinity” and “Trinity Is Still My Name”) – decided to realize his lifelong dream by acquiring the “Le Macìe” estate – extending across 93 hectares (230 acres) in all, of which only two were under vine – in order to create a winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.

 

Love and passion for Tuscan land was handed on from ltalo to his children Fabio, Sandra e Sergio, with his wife Daniela at his side.

 

1985: Sergio starts working at the winery with his father.

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1989: Sergio was appointed Company President.

Today: 3rd generation involved in the family business.

Donnafugata is a Sicilian wine company, producing wine from a number of native and international varieties. It was founded in the 1980s by the Rallo family, who have a winemaking history dating back to the 19th Century.

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The company counts five different wineries located in various sub-regions of Sicily, including on the neighbouring island of Pantelleria. 

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Donnafugata was created through the initiative of a family that, with passion revolutionized the style and perception of Sicilian wine in the world. The name Donnafugata refers to the novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa entitled I Gattopardo (The Leopard).

 

The brand name means "donna in fuga”(woman in flight) and refers to the story of a queen who found refuge in the part of Sicily where the company’s vineyards are located today... An adventure that inspired the corporate logo: the image of a woman's head with windblown hair found on every bottle.

Val di Suga's history began in 1969,when a company owned by Aldo Moro bought agr icultural land to the north of Montalcino and built a manufacturing and retail business on it. Previously used for forage, these lands were gradually made into vineyards as they changed hands a number of times until,in 1982,Val di Suga began making wines in its own winemaking cellars. The first vintage to be sold was Val di Suga Brunello Riserva 1977.

In 1988 the company bought one of the most famous of Montalcino's single vineyard sites, SPUNTALI, around 15 hectares of vineyard acknowledged by all to be one of the best Brunello terroir zones, on a south-west facing site

 

Today the company's philosophy and its everyday work target diversity placing the maximum attention on its wines and their indissoluble bond with the territory.

Vallone is a family owned company founded in 1936 and located in the Puglia region, south east of ltaly. The family owned estate covers 1482 acers.

 

Vittoria Maria Teresa and Francesco Vallone are the owners, Francesco is also the CEO.

 

The company has been founded by Vittoria and Maria Teresa's Grandfather. Vittoria and Maria Teresa developed and managed the company from 1976 to 2014 replacing Francesco's father prematurely deceased. Francesco has fifteen year ofexperience in the corporate finance practice.

 

In January 2014, as part of a generational transition, Francesco was asked to join the family business and received all the operating mandates.

The winery has as central unit a Parteolla’s traditional home, historical-geographical region of Sardinia where Serdiana is located. Since the beginning this winery bet on innovations, strongly linked its genesis to the Island and showing the identity.

 

By protecting local grape varieties and investing in sustainability, the company experiments with cutting-edge cultivation techniques, using the advice of international experts and speaks the language of the future. 
 

Antonio Argiolas used the term idea to define the dream of a winery capable of telling the world about itself, drawing strength from tradition. The legacy of that ambition, guarded by his sons Franco and Giuseppe, is today enhanced by his grandchildren Valentina, Francesca and Antonio who, as parents of a new generation, do not stop betting on the value of the land and its production, investing in training and comparison. 

Preserving the viti-vinicultural tradition of the zone and representing innovation in the field of wine production have been Cà Maiol’s goals ever since the beginning: objectives that were renewed in 1996 when the estate passed into the hands of the children of the founder, Walter Contato.

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Cà Maiol is situated in the heart of the Lugana zone, in the midst of flourishing vineyards and ancient farmsteads. The main building, constructed in 1710, is the nerve center of the estate’s activities, and alongside there is a sizeable showroom. Perfectly integrated with the surrounding countryside, this space welcomes visitors with guided tours, tastings and a shop.

 

In the large underground cellar one can find out everything about the company’s production, discovering its secrets and following, step by step, the slow, meticulous processes that lead from the grape to the bottle. Here, day after day, this cycle is renewed, skillfully combining a winemaking tradition that has been acquired over the years with state-of-the-art technology, such as the stainless steel vinification tanks or the lines for bottling and disgorgement.

Casale del Giglio was founded in 1967 by Dr. Berardino Santarelli, a native of the Appenine hill town of Amatrice.

The estate lies between the towns of Aprilia and Latina in the Agro Pontino valley, some 50 kms. south of Rome. Unlike other parts of the Latium region, or other regions of Italy, this territory was still uncharted in viticultural terms when Berardino Santarelli and his son Antonio launched their research project in 1985.

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Casale del Giglio subscribes to the philosophy that “the future of Italian viticulture relies not only on consolidating the image of its traditional wine producing zones but on its ability to produce top quality wines at favourable prices in areas whose potential is still relatively unexplored.”

As a result of Casale del Giglio’s research, the European Community authorized the cultivation of ‘new recommended varieties’ such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Syrah, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Sauvignon in the province of Latina (from 1990) while other varieties were authorized later.

 

Casale del Giglio has converted its 180 hectares of vineyard to the cordon trained system, electing to plant those grape varieties which adapt well to the territory and produce quality wines.

Casale del Giglio currently offers a range of twentytwo products – seven white wines, one rosé, seven reds, one late harvest, three grappas and an extra virgin olive oil.

The Fantini in Group was born in the small town of Ortona, Abruzzo, in the heart of the Mediterranean. Founded in 1994, by three partners Filippo, Valentino and Camillo also called “the three dreamers” because they were able to make dreams that seemed impossible, come true, to create a reality that was the flagship of Southern Italy without having much money nor vineyards but with a highly innovative business model.

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This is where the largest “Boutique Winery” in Italy is based. This implies a meticulous attention to every single detail, starting from the vineyards. To begin with, the grapes are carefully selected and the processing carried out by a team of 21 young winemakers with great international experience, that enables us to have wines of great value, appreciated all over the world.

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Full attention to details, specific marketing strategies for each individual product, and wine proposals enjoyed in over 87 countries around the world confirm the desire to be leaders of the wine renaissance of Southern Italy. This tireless pursuit of perfection has allowed us to become a leading company in Southern Italy for production and marketing and to win numerous national and international awards.

 

Fantini Group has been awarded “Best Producer of Italy” in 2020 by Mundus and also in 2016, 2017 and 2019 by one of the most important wine guides, the “Yearbook of the Best Italian Wines” by Luca Maroni; it was then elected “Producer of the Year 2017” by the Belgian journalist Alain Bloeykens. 

The Giuliari winery is located in the town of Illasi, around 15 kilometers east of Verona.

 

The winery is located in an old villa from the 17th century. It was founded in 1950 by the brothers of the same name.

 

The family has been committed to viticulture for three generations. Armando Vesco is responsible for the winemaking and produces top-quality wines, which are very rare due to the small production.​

Le Farnete Estate is located in the town of Carmignano, near Firenze. It covers a surface of 100 acres in the Carmignano docg zone and it is of Pierazzuoli Family since 1990.

 

Products of the Estate are Carmignano DOCG, and extra virgin olive oil Le Farnete plus of course Barco Reale doc di Carmignano and Carmignano docg Reserve.

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The wine yard of the Farnete estate extend for 11 hectares and are exposed South / south-east which is particularly indicated for the riping of the Sangiovese and of the Cabernet Sauvignon.

 

From these wine yards that have an age that goes from 10 to 40 years produce the wines of the Le Farnete Estate, Barco Reale doc of Carmignano, Carmignano docg and Carmignano docg Rserve .
1 hectar of the wine yards is dedicated to the Aleatico which has been planted in 2007 and it give origin to the wine Ljatico Aleatico Rosso Passito igt. ( sweet wine)

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The cellars of the Le Farnete estate are partially buried and have a premises for maturing wood, both barrique and tonneaux, with controlled humidity and temperature, and a place for the vinification in stainless low tanks with a section provided of temperature control and an implant for the micro oxygenation. 

Ocone is a small, family winery situated in the located in the province of Benevento.

 

Guiseppe Ocone founded the winery in 1910 and began bottling his own wines at a time when most Campania wineries simply sold in bulk to the north.  In the 1960s, his son Luigi distinguished

 

Ocone from other producers by focusing on the region’s near forgotten indigenous grapes such as Aglianico, Greco and Falanghina. Dedication to organic cultivation of these ancient varieties established Ocone as a world class estate. 

 

In 2017, Domenico Ocone sold the winery to Giorgio and Roberta Vergona, a local couple, who with their three children have restarted generational history at Ocone. 

 

Their goal is to continue the Ocone family’s legacy by producing wines in a fresh, clean style balanced by tradition.  The Ocone wines are approachable, food friendly, and varietally true. 

 

They possess great depth of flavor without being excessive and are consistently balanced and structured with complexity and length.

It was the early 1950s when Silvio Carta founded the eponymous company in Baratili San Pietro, immediately devoting himself to the most traditional of the local wine productions: Vernaccia di Oristano. An amber gold that embodies nobility and generosity, which immediately charms and conquers the palate.

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The skilful vinification, the long resting in a barrel and the careful and loving care by the Maison Silvio Carta have made this incredible wine an authentic glory of Sardinian oenology.

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Sixty years have passed since then, but Vernaccia still remains a family matter. But now there is more. After more than half a century, Silvio, together with his son Elio – the latter at the head since 1972 – still devote themselves to the production of the greater Vernaccia di Oristano DOC.

 

However, thanks to a careful look towards innovation and the loving care of very deep passions, today the Silvio Carta company is also synonymous with Mirto ‘riserva’, London Dry Gin, Vermouth and other typical spirits distributed all over the world as precious examples of an ancient and luxuriant land: today, the world smells of juniper, myrtle and citrus fruits from Sardinia thanks to the excellence of Silvio Carta.

Marco Farchioni, part of the traditionally rich Farchioni Family, fell in love with German beer many years ago which marked the beginning of a great success story.

 

Deeply rooted in Umbria, the green heart of Italy, Mastri Birrai Umbri grows their raw materials with a deep sense, passion and appreciation for the nature they’re surrounded by. 

With meanwhile 18 different beers Mastri Birrai Umbri has grown into one of the biggest craft breweries in Italy, awarded with numerous internationally acknowledged prizes that honor their holistic approach in producing authentic Umbrian Style craft beer and malt.

Casa Borgogno, is found right in the historical centre of the town of Barolo. The strong point of Borgogno lies in its unconditional respect of tradition, which recalls wines of days gone by and are actually produced with traditional and natural wine making methods. The fermentation practices have remained the same for many decades with long fermentation, pressing and hand-pumping. Over the years the techniques have been refined which affords lively, true and clean wines, different each year in that they adhere to the characteristics of the year but always have an unmistakable Borgogno seal.

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A unique library collection of back vintages of Barolo Riserva that dates to the 1960s. Borgogno probably has the largest Library Collection of Barolo old vintages of entire the Barolo area.There are more than 200.000 bottles that rest in the wine cellar.

 

Even today after 250 years, wines are made in full respect of tradition: without the use of chemical additives in the vineyards and with spontaneous fermentation in cement, with refinement in large barrels of Slavonian oak, in the cellar.

Bertani is an Italian wine producer in the northeastern wine-producing region of Veneto. The estate has two wineries: one in Valpolicella Valpantena and the second, Tenuta Novare, at the epicentre of Amarone and Valpolicella Classico Superiore winemaking country.

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Bertani was founded at the time of the Italian Unification, with the desire to proudly represent the excellence of a new nation with a thousand-year-old cultural. This commitment and the quality of Bertani wines helped it to achieve excellence in 1923: the royal warrant. 

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Although it is an outdated symbol now that Italy is a republic, for us it still represents the achievement of the highest quality.

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As an icon of Italian wine in the world, Bertani combines typicality of native grape varieties with continuous improvement in the vineyards and attention to the terroir.

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Respect for the tradition is balanced by innovation and great business acumen in order to achieve the highest quality: these are the fundamental principles of the winery, today also the reference point for the great national group: Angelini Wines & Estates.

The magic of this wine began in 1807 with the love story between the Marquis Barolo, Carlo Tancredi Falletti and a French noblewoman, Juliette Colbert de Maulév rier, a descendent of King Louis XIV finance minister.

 

It used to the beautiful fine French wines that she enjoyed before moving to Barolo, Juliette immediately sensed that the vineyards surrounding the Marquis Estate enjoyed a particularly auspicious and favourable position due to the soil and the microclimate that combined created the perfect environment for the Nebbiolo grapeFor this rich and precious grape, she created magnificent wine cellars to facilitate its fermentation and aging process in large fine oak barrels.

 

According to the French tradition, she gave this noble Nebbiolo so potent, austere and of unique flavour, the name of Barolo after its land of origin In 1864 with Marquise Juliette, the noble line of the Falletti's of Barolo was extingui shed. As a very devout Catholic, she decided to donate all her assets to charity. lt was created a Charity Administration recognized by the Government as a non-profit corporation under the name "Opera Pia Barolo".

The word "velvet" has always perfectly interpreted the meaning of luxury and refinement Velvet is soft and silky, which makes it very popular in the Renaissance.

 

lt is used to sew all kinds of luxury clothes to show the dignity and reputation of the aristocracy

 

Masseria Doppio Passo series colorant is inspired by the historical revival of ltalian textile industry. The design style of each pattern brush of Duobao series comes from the classic pattern of RUBELLI home textile customized cloth for aristocrats in the Renaissance.

From the outset, Righi products have increased the value of the area's best Lambrusco.

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Today Righi looks to the future with the knowledge that consumers, in particular young consumers, can and want to find in these delightful sparkling wines a new way to satisfy their demands of taste, quality and enjoyment.

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Righi was the first wine producing company to guarantee the traceability of every single bottle of Lambrusco.

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It does so using a computerized collection system which provides the consumer with details regarding production and the technology used as part of a chain that starts with the choice of the raw materials and ends with the product’s sale to the customer.

The consumer can learn more about the production process behind every single Righi bottle.

They say that a good wine needs time to reveal its qualities, but it also needs dedication and constant commitment.
Few products can embody so well a high level of expertise and thousands of years of history.
Botter boasts longstanding traditions dating back to almost a century.
It has been guided by the careful hands of three generations for whom wine has always symbolized passion as well as talent and creativity.
Luca, Annalisa and Alessandro Botter, who represent the third generation of the family, are now leading the company, integrating their almost centenary traditions with a new vision focused on future and innovation.

The headquarters of Botter are a few kilometres from Venice, in Fossalta di Piave, where the Company was founded.

In the cellar there are 452 tanks and fermentation tanks. Every day 5 bottling lines run to produce approximately 450,000 bottles. 

Canti’s world is a world of style, tradition and joy for life. Each and every bottle of Canti wine strives to cultivate the living values of Italy: the deep passion for good food and wine, the sense of belonging and the attraction to beautiful things. For this reason, Canti is the very first ambassador of Italy in the world, the Italian character at the table of any special occasion.

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No matter the occasion you have in mind, Canti has the right bottle of wine for you. The wide Canti range comes to answer all consumer needs and satisfy all palates, while having an excellent price positioning.

 

Unique and refined style, sophisticated taste, exclusive and glamorous packaging – with Canti it really takes little to feel Italian.

The history of the winery began in the second half of ’20, when the Italian government appropriated funds to stimulate also in south of Italy the cooperation because of the scant disposition of south producers to join in a wide system. 

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The destiny of the firm is linked to the most important product of the land, “Primitivo di Manduria”, a wine at first relegated to the low rank of ameliorative wine, destined to strengthen the title French dockets and of the North ofItaly, then humiliated during the dark years of the methanol and at the end arose again when around the half of the ’90there was a change aiming on the quality and on the value of the bottle.

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And so, today, the firm are convinced that the good wine sprouts in the fields and we have circumscribed the productive base and thanks to the help of a agronomist, we have followed better the work of our partners producing every year wholesome grapes and with superior organoleptic qualities.

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Moreover, for their most important dockets “Memoria”, “Lirica”, “Elegia” and “Madrigale” in short time there was a great demand in Italy and abroad. The Consorzio Produttori Vini has nowadays 900 hectares of vineyard, for the most grown with the traditional sapling system by 400 little working man of wine, that are called “Maestri del Primitivo”.

Fazi Battaglia was created in 1949 by the union of two families, Fazi and Battaglia, in a small cellar in the town of Cupramontana. However, it was the Angelini family, and particularly Francesco Angelini, founder of the pharmaceutical industry and mayor of Ancona, who turned this company into a historic Italian wine brand a few years later.

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We owe to Angelini the unmistakeable amphora-shaped bottle, inspired by ancient Etruscan containers: a competition was announced in 1953 and won by the architect Antonio Maiocchi. They were looking for a bottle that harked back to the ancients, but with a unique shape that would make his still little-known Verdicchio immediately recognisable.

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The result was the curvy amphora (which was rechristened “the Sofia Loren” in America), a bottle linked not just to the image of the winery, but also to a grape variety and a whole territory.

 

This came about thanks to his courage and insight, which can be summed up by two basic and very innovative decisions for the time: to invest in improving vineyard quality (at a time when most of Italian vinegrowing was a far cry from the culture of quality winemaking) and at the same time to strongly believe in a single grape variety, Verdicchio.

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These two choices were ahead of the times and made Fazi Battaglia a symbol of the promotion of both the Marche production territory and one of Italy’s great native grape varieties.

There are brands that are inextricably linked to the history and image of a nation.

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With 130 hectares of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico, Fazi Battaglia represents the history and tradition of Marche wine all over the world. The historic amphora-shaped bottle, created just after the Second World War, has become a symbol for Verdicchio and Italian wine. This is why the winery integrates well with the mission of the Angelini Wines & Estates group through strong brand identity, integrity and transparency, research and innovation, exploring new production methods while always remaining anchored in tradition.

 

This is Fazi Battaglia’s undertaking, together with promoting the Marche territory and its great variety: Verdicchio.

The Italo Cescon wine growing and producing company was established on 1957 not so far from Treviso city by its brave founder Italo Cescon and today is managed with the same passion and love by his children’s Gloria, Graziella and Domenico, together with mother Chiara. Preserving the secrets and the memories of our daddy, nowadays we keep the tradition we hand down from our father with a scrupulous research of quality and we produce wines Doc Piave, Doc Friuli and Doc Valdobbiadene.

 

Italo Cescon wine is the product of a famous Italian winery. The family respects traditions, continuously improves technologies and has a sincere love for wine, inventing new original recipes. The drink gets a special taste thanks to the fact that it is aged and stored in special wine cellars, where the wines are also tasted. Winemakers own a collection of monocellular wines, which includes eleven varieties, each bottle decorated with a piece of grapevine. Each bottle has a special and unique flavor and aromatic bouquet. 

The heart of the beautiful Trerose estate, which stretches over 5 hills, is the prestigious Villa dating from 1521, when Cardinal Silvio Passerini (1469-1529) was nominated Bishop of Cortona and had this building erected in the area between Valiano, Cortona and Lake Trasimeno, bordering the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States. 

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The winery stands out for its unique vineyard layout that highlights the shapes of the hills in this splendid territory and lets the vines enjoy a rich variety of exposures and soils, ranging from clay to sand and silt, and gives the selections of grapes different nuances and notes.

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The Trerose vineyards are a modern example of how it is possible to grow vines while respecting the landscape and exploiting its shape with a correct choice of planting direction.

Thanks to this choice, the rows of our vineyards have an AMPHITHEATRE layout which is A SIGNATURE that guarantees the valorisation of this unique area.

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The winemaking part consists of technology aimed at enhancing the several vineyard selections, able to alternate innovative systems with the possibility to intervene with traditional winemaking techniques.

Led from the beginning by the brothers Pico and Vitaliano Maccario, the winery is a symbol of modernity both in the vineyards management and the production of wines: the goal is that of reaching the highest possible quality, that, thanks to a precious teamwork, begins in the vineyard, continues to the cellar, and arrives to every corner in the world.

 

 The wines are aged in stainless steel, large barrels, tonneaux or barriques, always in pursuit of the highest quality and respect for the original traits of the grapes. For this reason, Pico Maccario Winery dedicates itself to technological innovation and research in the vineyard, as innovative technology, if well-calibrated, is the main road for obtaining the highest productive quality.

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MONFERRATO

In Monferrato Pico Maccario owns the majority of the hundred hectares among Barbera, Viognier, Cortese, Sauvignon Blanc, and Moscato d’Asti varietals. Thanks to clayey and medium-texture soil, Pico Maccario wines are balanced and feature a modern, versatile style, but respecting the natural characteristics of the grapes and vines. All around the single vineyard estate, over five thousand rose plants and one thousand colored pencil poles bring joy and identify the history and the mood of Pico Maccario with total respect to the traditions.

 

LANGHE

In the Langhe area Pico Maccario runs Nebbiolo vineyards in the comune of Neive, Serralunga d’Alba and Barolo, this last one with the prestigious Cannubi single vineyard, well-known and recognized as the oldest of Italy (1752) as well one of the most important in the world. The terroirs of the Langhe area, where Barolo and Barbaresco are produced, are very old: they date back to the geolocical epoch of Miocene. Featured by compact soils and fine texture, they adds elegance and a unique evolution over time to the wines.

The winery is located in the hills of Gualdo Cattaneo, just 5 km from the historic centre of Montefalco. Of recent construction, it is on two levels, one of which underground housing the barrel cellar and grape-drying room.

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There are 62 stainless steel tanks designed down to the smallest details by the company’s engineering staff and made by a local firm of artisans. They all have temperature control (cooling and heating) and the fermenting tanks for the red wines also have “pumping over” and “punching down”, either manual or automatic (PLC).

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Up to 1.500.000 litres can be stored in stainless steel. Process management and control is by computer. Closed-tank air presses are used for cryomaceration of the grapes.

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The drying facility, specially designed in-house, keeps the grapes in optimum condition for extended periods of time after picking.

 

Opposite the winery is a large two-storey farmhouse accommodating the show-and-tasting rooms, offices, shop, a large room with a fire and a panoramic terrace, and other rooms for clients and friends.

Tenuta Setteponti vineyards are 100% organic, managed by expert farmers and agronomists whose aim is to make high-quality wines that get their start between these rows. Quality is the main goal from the very beginning, throughout the growth and production cycle – starting with pruning, budding, blooming, fruit set, veraison (when the grapes begin to change color), cluster thinning, harvest and finally, the selection of the grapes. 

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Because of their location, aspect, latitude, and longitude, our vineyards give life to unique wines, full of elegance, structure, longevity, and fruity aromas. Even the winds and lighter breezes from the nearby Pratomagno zone ventilate the vineyards, contributing to their health.

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The cellar is where Tenuta Setteponti grapes conclude their journey to becoming wine. When they arrive in the cellar, they go through a natural transformation into wine, before beginning suitable aging in temperature-controlled steel vats, concrete tanks, ceramic containers, and oak barrels.