Italian winery listings
Page 6 of 12 in the Italian winery directory, with estate profiles, tasting options, cellar tours, booking details, and wine availability.
Est. 1952
Veneto
Valdobbiadene
Cantina Produttori di Valdobbiadene, Val d’Oca
Val d'Oca is the label of Cantina Produttori di Valdobbiadene, a co-operative of about 600 growers founded in 1952. Its members farm more than 1,000 hectares, half inside the UNESCO-listed Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG. They include nine of the 43 Rive and part of the Cartizze hill. The black satin bottle has been its trademark since 1997, and the Wine Center runs three tastings you can book.
Glera
Pinot Nero
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Est. 2001
Tuscany
Terricciola
Casanova della Spinetta
Casanova della Spinetta is the Tuscan winery of the Rivetti family of La Spinetta. It was founded in 2001 at Terricciola, in the province of Pisa. The listed bottles centre on Toscana IGT, led by Sangiovese and Vermentino.
Sangiovese
Vermentino
Tuscany
Radda in Chianti
Castello di Albola
A medieval village above Radda in Chianti, owned by the Zonin family since 1979. Organic Sangiovese from vineyards at 350 to 650 metres, single-vineyard Gran Selezione, eight bookable tastings, three suites and an osteria.
Sangiovese
Cabernet Sauvignon
Chardonnay
Tuscany
Greve in Chianti
Castello Vicchiomaggio
A castle with a tower from around 1100 and one of Chianti's most open cellar doors. Daily tastings at the Cantinetta San Jacopo, guided tours from 33 euros, and a restaurant and rooms inside the walls. The Matta family has made the wines here since 1964. Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot fill the Chianti Classico range, and Amphiarao ages in terracotta jars from Impruneta.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Canaiolo
Merlot
Sicily
Gela
Catalano Viticoltori
Family winery in the hills near Gela: Grillo, Frappato, Cerasuolo di Vittoria and a gold-medal Syrah, with tastings you can book online.
Frappato
Nero d'Avola
Grillo
Est. 1956
Tuscany
Barberino Tavarnelle
Isole e Olena
Two historic hamlets joined into one estate in 1956, and the birthplace of Cepparello, the pure Sangiovese released every first of April.
Sangiovese
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
Veneto
Tarzo
Tenuta di Ville d Arfanta
Six hectares of Glera on the cool north flank of the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene hills. The Serena family runs the restored country house for Prosecco tastings, vineyard walks and overnight stays.
Glera
Pinot Grigio
Emilia Romagna
San Clemente
Tenuta Mara
Tenuta Biodinamica Mara farms Sangiovese di Romagna to Demeter-certified biodynamic rules, twelve kilometres inland from the Adriatic in the Rimini hills. The wines ferment spontaneously and age in three decorated cellar rooms. The flagship is MaraMia, and the estate pairs its cellar with art, music, a restaurant and the four-suite Casa Mara.
Sangiovese
Pinot Nero
Est. 2020
Sicily
Catania
Tenute dei Ciclopi
Three friends founded Tenute dei Ciclopi in 2020 and make six Etna DOC wines with Salvo Foti, from old vines at Castiglione di Sicilia, Randazzo and Milo. Tastings are in their room in central Catania.
Nerello Cappuccio
Nerello Mascalese
Carricante
Est. 1999
Abruzzo
Loreto Aprutino
Torre dei Beati
Adriana Galasso and Fausto Albanesi farm 21 certified organic hectares around Loreto Aprutino. The inland Pescara town sits between the Adriatic and the snow line of the Gran Sasso. Their range circles three native grapes: Montepulciano in juicy and Riserva form, Pecorino with bright acidity, and Trebbiano d'Abruzzo. The Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo Rosa-ae was Gambero Rosso's Rosé of the Year in 2020.
Montepulciano
Pecorino
Trebbiano
Est. 1978
Liguria
Chiavari
Vini Bisson
Bisson farms native Ligurian whites and reds across the Riviera di Levante, from a Chiavari enoteca trading since 1978 and a Sestri Levante cellar opened in 2019. Founder Pierluigi Lugano made the first Ligurian metodo classico. He then pioneered ageing spumante in stainless-steel cages at sixty metres on the Portofino seabed, the technique behind the estate's flagship Abissi Riserva Marina.
Vermentino
Bianchetta
Albarola
Est. 2005
Sicily
Randazzo
Al-Cantàra
Poems for names, paintings for labels: Pucci Giuffrida's estate outside Randazzo makes Etna DOC and Terre Siciliane wines from hand-farmed vines, some still on their own roots. Winery of the year at Gran Vinitaly 2023.
Nerello Mascalese
Carricante
Catarratto
Tuscany
Montepulciano
Azienda Agricola Canneto
Organic Vino Nobile di Montepulciano estate near the church of San Biagio, owned by Swiss friends since 1987, with a tour and tasting you can book online.
Sangiovese
Est. 1983
Marche
Ostra Vetere
Azienda Agricola Fratelli Bucci
Bucci is one of the reference producers of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. In an underground cellar at Ostra Vetere, eighty-year-old Slavonian oak casks age both the Riserva DOCG white and the Pongelli Rosso Piceno red. The vineyards in Montecarotto, Serra de' Conti and Ostra Vetere are certified organic. Around 130,000 bottles a year; visits by arrangement only.
Verdicchio
Abruzzo
Rosciano
Azienda Agricola Marramiero
Marramiero's four estates run from the Pescara plain at Rosciano up to Ofena under the Gran Sasso. Montepulciano d'Abruzzo leads, alongside Trebbiano, Pecorino and a Pinot Nero grown on chalky clay soils. Inferi is the house signature, a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo given forty months in Ganimede tanks. Visits are tasting-led and by appointment, in four set tiers from thirty-five to a hundred euro per person.
Montepulciano
Pecorino
Trebbiano
Est. 1961
Umbria
Baschi
Barberani
Family estate above Lake Corbara, in the historic Classico heart of Orvieto. Niccolo and Bernardo Barberani, the third generation, farm 55 hectares of certified organic vines and keep about 30 hectares of forest. Best known for the Castagnolo and Luigi e Giovanna Orvieto Classico Superiore, the noble-rot Calcaia, and the red blend Polvento.
Grechetto
Sangiovese
Trebbiano Toscano
Est. 1967
Lombardy
Desenzano del Garda
Cà Maiol
Cà Maiol started in 1967 around a farmhouse dated 1710, on the flat Lugana land south of Lake Garda. Its founder helped set up the body that protects the Lugana name. Turbiana fills most of the vines, with Groppello, Marzemino and Barbera on the Valtènesi side to the west. The Marzotto family's wine group bought the estate in 2017. Four guided tastings can be booked, and the wine shop opens every day.
Turbiana
Barbera
Groppello
Est. 1996
Tuscany
Castagneto Carducci
Ca Marcanda
Angelo Gaja planted this Bolgheri estate in 1996. About 100 hectares of vines above Castagneto Carducci, roughly 140 football pitches, feed four wines: Promis, Magari, Camarcanda and Vistamare.
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Veneto
Villa
Ca’ Avignone
Five wines from plots of one to two hectares in the Euganean Hills, from a cloudy Glera fizz to the Colli Euganei DOC 3Tinto Riserva. A tasting of four wines with local food runs Thursday to Saturday, booked online.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Garganega
Glera
Basilicata
Rionero in Vulture
Cantine del Notaio
Founded in 1998 by Gerardo Giuratrabocchetti and Marcella Libutti, Cantine del Notaio farms 40 hectares of Aglianico, Moscato and Malvasia across five Mount Vulture villages. The flagship Aglianico del Vulture La Firma ages in French oak in grottoes carved from volcanic tufo around 1600. Luigi Moio has shaped every release as consulting winemaker.
Aglianico
Est. 1833
Sicily
Marsala
Cantine Florio
Vincenzo Florio's 1833 cellars on the Marsala seafront, four tufa aisles holding 3,000 casks of Marsala Vergine and Superiore. Now part of the Duca di Salaparuta group, with three bookable tastings and a sea-view terrace.
Grillo
Malvasia di Lipari
Puglia
Gioia del Colle
Cantine Polvanera
Cantine Polvanera makes organic Primitivo di Gioia del Colle and a range of native Puglian grapes. About 100 hectares sit at 300 to 450 metres in the Murgia hills. The cellar is carved eight metres into the limestone beside an 1820 farmhouse, where tastings, cellar tours and lunches can be booked.
Moscato
Negroamaro
Primitivo
Est. 1994
Friuli Venezia Giulia
Buttrio
Castello di Buttrio
A castle rebuilt in 1600 on a hill of vines planted around 1940, bought by Marco Felluga in 1994 and run by his daughter Alessandra. Four tastings to book online, rooms in the castle and the farmhouse below, and an osteria.
Friulano
Pinot Grigio
Ribolla Gialla
Puglia
San Pancrazio Salentino
Castello Monaci
Salento estate near San Pancrazio Salentino with a 16th-century castle and a white tuff cellar built by the Memmo family in the 1970s. Around it grow 200 hectares of Primitivo, Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera di Lecce vines. Open daily for cellar tours, the on-site Merum wine museum, and tastings of Piluna, Maru, Liante and Kreos.
Primitivo
Chardonnay
Malvasia Nera