Campi Valerio

Campi Valerio is a small family estate in the mountains of Molise, on the Pentro di Isernia plateau. The Volturno river softens this stretch of high country in the province of Isernia. Antonio Valerio and his family began turning a single peasant vineyard into a cellar in 2004. Today they work five small plots, about 21 football pitches in all, climbing from 290 to 560 metres. The Valerio family works mostly with Tintilia, Falanghina, Montepulciano and Sangiovese. The flagship is La Lana, a Tintilia aged in terracotta jars.

Close-up of a Campi Valerio Pentro 2010 label on a wooden case

About Campi Valerio

Vines were first planted here in the seventeenth century by Prince Giovanni Pignatelli, a Neapolitan nobleman with land at Monteroduni. The modern chapter began in 2004. The Valerio family, with roots in the area's farming life, began turning a single peasant vineyard into a small but ambitious cellar. Antonio Valerio still runs the project with his family.

The estate sits at Monteroduni, a hill town at the heart of the Pentro di Isernia plateau. This is the inland, Apennine half of Molise. Mountain ranges shelter the plateau, and the Volturno, the longest river in southern Italy, waters it. The soils the river laid down still mark the local vineyards.

Campi Valerio works five vineyard sites, about 21 football pitches of vines in all. They climb from 290 to 560 metres above sea level. The highest, Miranda at Pesche, reaches 560 metres on clay soils mixed with river deposits. The plots are kept small and varied on purpose, so each wine can express the spot it comes from.

The grapes follow Molise tradition. Tintilia is the signature dark variety: low-yielding, late-ripening, native to these mountains and capable of long ageing. Falanghina leads the whites, while Montepulciano and Sangiovese fill out the reds. The bottlings map the local wine names. Fannia is a Falanghina del Molise DOC. Calidio and Sannazzaro are Rosso del Molise DOC. Opalia and V.M. carry Tintilia del Molise. There is also the rare Pentro di Isernia DOC and a traditional-method sparkling wine.

La Lana Tintilia del Molise DOC is the cellar's most distinctive wine. Its grapes come from Miranda, a single plot of just over five football pitches. The wine ferments in terracotta amphora and completes its malolactic there too, then goes to bottle at fourteen percent. In the glass it is deep ruby: sour cherry, raspberry and plum preserve, with grippy tannin and a fresh edge from the altitude. Antonio Valerio's own line on his wines is that they ask for patience.

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Contrada Selvotta, 86075 Monteroduni, Isernia (Molise)
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Contrada Selvotta, 86075 Monteroduni, Isernia (Molise)
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  • Campi Valerio is in Monteroduni, in the province of Isernia, on the Pentro di Isernia plateau in inland Molise. The address is Contrada Selvotta, 86075 Monteroduni. The vineyards sit between 290 and 560 metres above sea level. The Sannita Apennines shelter them, and the upper Volturno waters them.
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