Tenimenti Grieco is a family estate in Portocannone, on the Adriatic edge of Molise, where the vineyards sit 150 metres above the sea on the hills that face the Tremiti Islands. The cellar focuses on Tintilia del Molise DOC and Biferno Rosso DOC, alongside a Terre degli Osci IGT range that includes the Bordeaux-style Triassi, the Chardonnay-led Matana and the Anima Osca line. UK drinkers know the wines from Strictly Wine, Great Wines Direct, All About Wine and Valvona & Crolla.
Molise
Tenimenti Grieco sits on the hills of Portocannone, in the province of Campobasso, at Contrada Difensola 150 metres above the Adriatic. The vineyards look east across the sea to the Tremiti Islands, and the iodine-laden breeze that climbs the slope each afternoon is the one fact every wine on the list keeps coming back to. This stretch of southern Italian coast is barely on the wine-tourism map, which is precisely why the estate has spent the last decade making the case for it bottle by bottle.
The winery is run by Antonio Grieco and Emanuela Cecca, partners in life and in business, with the cellar in the hands of resident enologist Maria Concetta Raimondo. The project began in the late 2010s with a clear remit: take the two native red anchors of Molise, Tintilia and Aglianico, and stand them next to a Bordeaux-style blend that would prove the coast can also handle international varieties without losing its salt-air signature.
Triassi is the flagship. The Terre degli Osci IGT red blends Cabernet Sauvignon at 55 percent with Merlot and a 10 percent splash of Aglianico, ages in French oak barriques, and has carried 96 to 97 points from Luca Maroni for several vintages running, plus a Concours Mondial de Bruxelles Gold for the 2018. Matana is its white counterpart, a single-vineyard Chardonnay from a 1990 planting at San Martino in Pensilis, which Luca Maroni rated 95 points in 2022.
The I Molisani range is where the estate speaks the local language. 200 Metri is 100 percent Tintilia from a 4.5 hectare plot at Larino and Ururi, planted in 2008 at 300 metres above sea level, and is the wine that Decanter, Bibenda and Berebene keep returning to year after year. Bosco delle Guardie is the Biferno Rosso DOC, a Montepulciano-led blend with 20 percent Aglianico, refined in French tonneaux for a more structured expression of the appellation.
Around those two pillars sit lighter, vineyard-named ranges. Anima Osca offers Bianco and Rosso bottlings under Terre degli Osci IGT for everyday drinking, Passo alle Tremiti splits its Aglianico, Falanghina and Sauvignon between three coastal labels, and the Settenodi sparkling and Costali single-variety wines round out the list. The Anima Osca Rosso, a Montepulciano-Cabernet-Syrah blend from the San Martino in Pensilis vineyards, is the bottling stocked in the UK trade and still available through specialist Italian-wine merchants.
Plate I · MOLISE
Tenimenti Grieco's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Falanghina.
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