A small 3 hectare estate on the on the island of Pantelleria off the Sicilian Coast. Francesco Ferreri is one of the partners and native to the Island. After seeing his Grandfather make wines he wanted to return to the island and refind the pathways of the old hands that made wine on this extraodinary place before the youth left and big agriculture and lazy winemaking took over.
In the Colli Aretini, just east of Chianti Classico, the Bazzocchi family bought the estate in the 1940s; grandson Luca Sanjust runs it now. 31 organic hectares on rocky galestro soils. Robert Parker called the estate`s Galatrona Merlot the Pétrus of Italy.
Marco De Bartoli (1944 to 2011) revived traditional Marsala wines and founded his estate near Marsala. 100% Grillo, aged by perpetual blend. The 30-year-old Riserva is among his most prized wines.
Jacopo Stigliano, from Bologna, began his own project in 2015 recovering abandoned old vineyards in the Valsamoggia hills between Bologna and Modena: never more than three hectares, vines 60 to over 90 years old, at 200 to 300 metres on clay, limestone and marl. Native yeasts, no pesticides or herbicides, unfined and unfiltered, minimal sulphur. Buriana is a skin-contact field blend of Pignoletto, Trebbiano, Sauvignon, Verdicchio and more than a dozen other varieties, about eight days on skins, fermented and aged in cement and amphora.
Jacopo Stigliano, from Bologna, began his own project in 2015 recovering abandoned old vineyards in the Valsamoggia hills between Bologna and Modena: never more than three hectares, vines 60 to over 90 years old, at 200 to 300 metres on clay, limestone and marl. Native yeasts, no pesticides or herbicides, unfined and unfiltered, minimal sulphur. Lauv is a red field blend of Barbera, Sangiovese, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Grasparossa, Negrettino, Uva Tosca and Marzemino. The 2021 harvest was so hard that only magnums were bottled.
