Wineries in Italy

Nerello Mascalese

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Tuscany · Firenze

Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi

Marchesi de Frescobaldi is a 30th-generation wine family with nine estates across Tuscany, from the hills of Chianti Rufina to the Maremma coast. The linked bottle range currently centres on Chianti DOCG, Pomino DOC and Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, with grapes such as Sangiovese, Chardonnay and Canaiolo.

Apulia · San Marzano S. G.

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Est. 1986

Campania · Sorbo Serpico

Aziende Agricole Feudi di San Gregorio

Feudi di San Gregorio is the largest family-owned winery in southern Italy, set above the Irpinian hills at Sorbo Serpico in the province of Avellino. The linked bottle range currently centres on Fiano di Avellino DOCG, Campania IGT and Falanghina del Sannio DOC, with grapes such as Aglianico, Falanghina and Fiano.

Aglianico

Fiano

Falanghina

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Est. 1962

Cantine San Marzano

Cantine San Marzano sits in the centre of the Primitivo di Manduria DOP zone, between the Ionian and Adriatic coasts of Salento. Started by nineteen winegrowers in 1962, it bottled its first wines in 1996 and put Puglia on the international map with Sessantanni Primitivo di Manduria DOP, sourced from old bush-vines over sixty years old.

Primitivo

Negroamaro

Veneto · Fumane di Valpolicella

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Piedmont · Barbaresco

Gaja

Gaja sits in Barbaresco, Piedmont, with the current ItalianWines.co.uk bottle selection anchored by Barbaresco DOCG, Barolo DOCG and Langhe DOC. The linked bottle range currently centres on Barbaresco DOCG, Barolo DOCG and Langhe DOC, with grapes such as Nebbiolo, Barbera and Merlot.

Marchesi Antinori

Spanning twenty-six generations since 1385, Marchesi Antinori is the oldest continuously family-run wine business in Italy. The linked bottle range currently centres on Chianti Classico DOCG, Toscana IGT and Bolgheri DOC, with grapes such as Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

Allegrini

Family estate in Fumane di Valpolicella with around 150 hectares across La Grola, La Poja, Palazzo della Torre, and the Lugana cru at Oasi Mantellina. Run by the heirs of Walter and Franco Allegrini, with a range built around Corvina, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, and the Terre di Fumane drying facility.

Corvina

Rondinella

Corvinone

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Est. 1938

Sardinia · Serdiana

Argiolas

Family winery in Serdiana, twenty kilometres inland of Cagliari, working estates across Trexenta, Sulcis and the Parteolla. Founded 1938 by Antonio Argiolas, three generations now bottle Cannonau, Carignano, Bovale Sardo, Vermentino and Nuragus under Isola dei Nuraghi IGT and Vermentino di Sardegna DOC. Best known for Turriga, the Cannonau-led blend designed in the late 1980s with consulting oenologist Giacomo Tachis.

Carignano

Cannonau

Vermentino

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Est. 1978

Tuscany · Montalcino

Castello Banfi

Castello Banfi farms around 800 hectares of vineyard on the southern slopes of Montalcino, around the restored Castello di Poggio alle Mura. Brunello di Montalcino is the heart of the range, backed by Rosso di Montalcino, Tuscan IGT reds and a separate Chianti Classico. Equalitas-certified and family-owned, it is set up for visitors, with tastings, tours, two restaurants and rooms inside the castle.

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Est. 1937

Piedmont · Alba

Ceretto

Three generations of single-vineyard Barolo and Barbaresco from Alba, farmed organically, with glass tasting pavilions among the vines and the Sol LeWitt and David Tremlett Chapel of Barolo above La Morra.

Cusumano

Founded in 2001 by brothers Diego and Alberto Cusumano, this Partinico estate spreads more than five hundred hectares across western Sicily and the northern slopes of Etna under the Alta Mora label. Sàgana from Butera and Alta Mora Guardiola are the reference bottles, and SOStain Sicilia certification covers the full range.

Nero d'Avola

Piedmont · Castiglione Falletto

Catarratto

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Cantina Vietti

Castiglione Falletto estate farming around 75 hectares across the Langhe, Roero, Asti and Colli Tortonesi. One of the Langhe's most recognised producers of single-vineyard Barolo, Barbaresco and Vigna Scarrone Barbera, herbicide-free since 2007 and Equalitas certified, with structured tastings and a vineyard Trekking Experience through Rocche di Castiglione and Villero.

Varvaglione 1921

Family-run cellar at Leporano, on the western edge of the Salento, built around two Primitivo di Manduria DOC flagships and a broad 12 e Mezzo Salento IGP range.

Primitivo

Negroamaro

Fiano

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Est. 1977

Lombardy · Erbusco

Azienda Agricola Bellavista

Founded by Vittorio Moretti in 1977 on the Bellavista hill above Lake Iseo, this Erbusco estate is one of the reference points for Franciacorta. Hand-harvested chardonnay and pinot nero from 209 hectares feed Alma Assemblage, Satèn, Teatro alla Scala and the long-aged Vittorio Moretti Riserva, with Curtefranca DOC Bianco on the still-wine side.

Veneto · Negrar di Valpolicella

Pinot Nero

Pinot Bianco

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Apulia · Fasano

Tagaro

Tagaro is a family-run Apulian estate at Fasano with around forty hectares across the Itria Valley, Salento, and Murgia. The range covers Mancinello Nero di Troia, Cinquenoci Primitivo, Sei Caselle Negroamaro, and the Pinataro line under Puglia IGT, with Muso Rosso and the Gravità Riserva flagship under Primitivo di Manduria DOC.

Primitivo

Negroamaro

Aglianico

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Est. 1924

Giuseppe Quintarelli

The reference Amarone della Valpolicella estate, founded in Cerè in 1924 and run today by the fourth generation. Long appassimento and seven to ten years in Slavonian botti shape Amarone Classico, Recioto, the Cabernet-blend Alzero IGT, and the Rosso del Bepi declassification.

L'Archetipo

Dibenedetto family estate on the Castellaneta plateau of Apulia. Francesco Valentino farms the vineyards by synergistic agriculture, the no-tillage method inherited from Masanobu Fukuoka, and bottles native varieties under Salento IGT and Puglia IGT. Triple A producer since 2016, with low-sulphur reds led by Primitivo Mistico and an orange Verdeca Sette Lune.

Arnaldo Caprai

Caprai at Località Torre, founded by Arnaldo in 1971 and led since 1986 by Marco, set the modern dry Sagrantino style. The 25 Anni is the international benchmark; the estate runs daily tastings and is Equalitas-certified.

Sagrantino

Trentino-South Tyrol · Termeno

Grechetto

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Tuscany · Montepulciano

Avignonesi

Avignonesi is based at Le Capezzine near Montepulciano, where Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Vin Santo and hospitality meet in one Tuscan estate. The linked bottle range currently centres on Toscana IGT, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG and Bianco dell'Empolese DOC, with grapes such as Sangiovese, Grechetto and Merlot.

Cantina Santadi

A Sulcis cooperative founded in 1960, anchoring its reputation on Carignano del Sulcis from sandy, ungrafted vineyards by the sea. Terre Brune Superiore, Rocca Rubia Riserva and the Villa Solais Vermentino define the Sardinian range.

Cantina Tramin

A 160-grower cooperative founded in 1898 in Termeno, the Alto Adige village that gave Gewürztraminer its name. Long-time winemaker Willi Stürz oversees a portfolio split between a Classic range and a Selection list whose best-known bottles include Nussbaumer Gewürztraminer, Stoan, Troy Chardonnay Riserva and Epokale, the Gewürztraminer that earned 100 Wine Advocate points in its 2009 vintage.

Gewürztraminer

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Veneto · Trebaseleghe

Cantine Sacchetto

Cantine Sacchetto is a family-run winery based in Trebaseleghe, in the Veneto plain west of Venice. The linked bottle range currently centres on Prosecco DOC, Delle Venezie DOC and Pinot Nero dell'Oltrepò Pavese DOC, with grapes such as Glera and Pinot Grigio.

Glera

Pinot Grigio

11wines From £5.51

Est. 1903

Tuscany · Pontedera

Castellani

Five generations of the Castellani family farm a run of Tuscan estates from Radda in Chianti to the Maremma coast, bottling Chianti, Chianti Classico, Vernaccia di San Gimignano and Vino Nobile alongside coastal Vermentino and Morellino. Two estates open for visits and tastings, and Poggio al Casone keeps a small resort among the vines.