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Azienda Agricola Mustilli
Mustilli farms about 14 football pitches of native vines in the Sannio hills around Sant'Agata de' Goti, in the Benevento corner of inland Campania. In 1979 Leonardo Mustilli bottled the first wine made from Falanghina alone. His daughters Paola and Anna Chiara now run the estate from a 17th-century palazzo in the medieval town centre. The cellars are carved into the tuff rock below. The estate sends out about 80,000 bottles a year.
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About Azienda Agricola Mustilli
The Mustilli family has lived in Sant'Agata de' Goti since the early 1300s, when they moved inland from Ravello on the Amalfi coast. The modern estate begins with Leonardo Mustilli. Through the 1960s and 1970s he replanted Falanghina, Greco, Piedirosso and Aglianico, at a time when other Sannio growers were pulling up native vines for international grapes. In 1979 he bottled a wine made from Falanghina alone, widely cited as the first ever.
Leonardo also led the campaign that won Sant'Agata de' Goti its own DOC in 1993. He helped launch the Movimento Turismo del Vino in Campania, and hosted one of the first Cantine Aperte open-cellar weekends in 1992. Today his wife Marilì and their daughters run the estate. Paola looks after sales and hospitality, and Anna Chiara manages the vines and the cellar. The estate belongs to FIVI, the Italian federation of independent winegrowers.
The vines sit on the hills of Sant'Agata and the neighbouring village of Dugenta. The soils are volcanic, over a soft tuff rock the locals call tassone, streaked with clay and limestone. Days run warm and nights turn sharply cool, with summer swings of up to 15°C. That slow ripening gives the white grapes a long season. The vines are farmed under integrated pest control.
Until 2001 every vintage was made in the old cellars cut into the tuff, fifteen metres under Palazzo Mustilli, where it stays around 12°C all year. Those three hundred square metres of galleries now hold the long oak ageing of the Aglianico wines, including the Cesco di Nece. Fermenting and bottling happen at a separate site on Via Caudina. About 80,000 bottles leave the estate each year.
Guests are received in the family palazzi, Palazzo Mustilli and Palazzo Rainone, for cellar tours and tastings. The wines fall into three ranges. I Classici covers Falanghina, Greco, Piedirosso and Aglianico under Sannio DOC. Le Selezioni holds the Vigna Segreta Falanghina, the Artus Piedirosso and the Cesco di Nece Aglianico under the town's own DOC. Regina Isabella and Regina Sofia are frizzante wines kept on their lees. A wine bar, Le Cantine di Mustilli, serves traditional Sannio cooking under the vaulted tuff arches, and a small bed and breakfast sits upstairs in the 17th-century Palazzo Rainone.
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Azienda Agricola Mustilli
S. Agata dei Goti, Benevento
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Wine areaDOC
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Visit & Experiences
4 bookable experiences at Azienda Agricola Mustilli
3 tastings and 1 stay, checked by our editors. From €20.
Tasting
Tasting of 2 Classic Wines at Cantine Mustilli
2h
From €20 per person
English · Español and Italiano
Live a magical experience in the cellars dug into the tuff in the bowels of the beautiful village of Sant'Agata de' Goti
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Tasting & Tour
Cellar tour with three Classici wines
About 25 minutes plus tasting
€20 for three wines
Twenty-five minute guided walk through the tuff cellars under Palazzo Mustilli, followed by a tasting of three I Classici wines: Falanghina, Greco, Piedirosso or Aglianico Sannio DOC. A plate of local cold cuts and cheeses can be added on request.
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Tasting
Le Selezioni single-vineyard flight
€25 with cellar tour
Three single-vineyard wines from the Sant'Agata de' Goti DOC: the Vigna Segreta Falanghina, Artus Piedirosso and Cesco di Nece Aglianico. The Cesco di Nece is aged in oak in the original underground cellars before bottling.
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Accommodation
Stay at Palazzo Rainone-Mustilli
Four bedrooms and a suite inside the family's 17th-century palazzo in the medieval centre of Sant'Agata de' Goti. Frescoed ceilings, a panoramic terrace and a private breakfast included. The dimora is open from 1 April to 2 November.
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Via dei Fiori, 20, 82019 S. Agata dei Goti, Benevento (Campania)
What Azienda Agricola Mustilli makes
Azienda Agricola Mustilli's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Aglianico and Falanghina.
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Common questions
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Mustilli is in Sant'Agata de' Goti, a medieval town in the Sannio hills of inland Campania, about an hour northeast of Naples. It is best known for bottling the first wine made from Falanghina alone, in 1979. It is also the main estate working under the town's own DOC.
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