At nearly 600 metres above Bisignano, looking down over the Crati Valley, Azienda Agricola Serracavallo farms 30 hectares of vineyards on granite-sandy soils inside Terre di Cosenza DOP. The estate, run by Demetrio Stancati and his family, focuses on native Calabrian Magliocco Dolce and Pecorello alongside selected international varieties, ageing its top reds in an underground French-oak barrique cellar built into the slope.
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Guided vineyard walk, cellar visit and a tasting of three estate wines, hosted by the owner or a member of the team. Programmed Friday mornings between 10:30 and 13:00, on request other days. Booking required.
EnquireExtended cellar and vineyard visit with a sit-down tasting of six estate wines. Available year-round on reservation, also bookable through the WineTourism platform.
Book this experienceSit-down tasting lunch where each wine is paired with one course, served by reservation for groups of 18 to 34 guests in the estate's tasting room.
EnquireGuided vineyard walk, cellar visit and a tasting of three estate wines, hosted by the owner or a member of the team. Programmed Friday mornings between 10:30 and 13:00, on request other days. Booking required.
EnquireThe name Serracavallo predates any vineyard. The site once served the Sanseverino princes as a stud farm for the White Chinea, the local horse breed sent to Rome as a vassal tribute to the Pope. The estate today extends over 50 hectares of restructured country houses, farmhouses and old workshops, with vineyards perched on the granite ridges that overlook the Crati Valley between Bisignano and Acri, around 35 kilometres north of Cosenza city. Demetrio Stancati picks up where his maternal grandfather, a doctor with a passion for oenology, left off in the 1930s. Since 1995 he has rebuilt the vineyard plot by plot, running clonal selections on the Magliocco Dolce, Pecorello and Brezio that have always grown on the property and adding international vines where they ripen well at altitude. Serracavallo joined the Terre di Cosenza DOP from the 2012 vintage and now produces around 150,000 bottles a year, every one released under either DOP Terre di Cosenza or Calabria IGP. The thirty hectares under vine sit at roughly 600 metres on granite-sandy soil with a southwest aspect. Sharp day-to-night temperature swings preserve aromatics and acidity in the white grapes (Pecorello, Greco Bianco, Chardonnay, Riesling) and tighten the structure of the reds, where Magliocco Dolce works alongside Cabernet Sauvignon. Vines are trained to guyot and harvested by hand in multiple passes so that only fully ripe bunches go into the cellar. The cellar, rebuilt in 2008, is temperature-controlled and stainless-steel throughout, with an underground barrique room beneath where French oak barriques and tonneaux age the upper-tier reds. Flagship wines include Terraccia, the aged red, and the white Filovento; Terraccia 2021 took the Grande Medaille d'Or at the 2024 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. Around the vines run ten hectares of olive groves planted to Carolea and Dolce di Rossano, plus the Calabrian fico dottato fig, signalling a working farm rather than a single-crop estate. La Foresteria di Serracavallo, the on-site guesthouse, has five rooms and twelve beds inside the restored country buildings. Cellar visits run as the Dal Campo al Bicchiere walk-through, a 90-minute vineyard-and-tasting circuit on Friday mornings or by appointment, with an extended six-wine version for committed visitors. The Sette Bocconi tasting lunch, served on request for groups, pairs each wine with one course in a sit-down format. Visits are run in Italian, French and English.
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