More and more wineries are joining our Project, which we started not long ago, but which has already met with enormous support from producers and from the entire industry.
We’ve decided to expand our tool and our experience as digital and physical facilitators of the meeting between companies and consumers.
It’s also an entirely innovative way for wineries themselves to promote their products, thus benefitting from a wide variety of perks and advantages.
This project is an important branch of Vinhood’s Taste District, a newly formed network of companies, producers, brands, and consumers brought together by a passion for research and by the desire to study, innovate, and simplify the taste world.
Today we’ll introduce you to these new wineries!
Piccini is a historic family company that, for more than four generations, has passed down its passion, values, knowledge, and skills, in the name of the region’s most noble identity. Piccini is a company that’s deeply rooted to Tuscany and its traditions, with a significant regional DNA that has never been viewed as a limitation. In fact, today the family boasts 5 estates spread out across Italy: the Fattoria di Valiano, in the Chianti Classico region; Tenuta Moraia, in the province of Grosseto; Villa al Cortile in Montalcino; Regio Cantina in Basilicata; and Torre Mora in the Etna Doc territory. Some might view it as just another one of the many giants of the Italian oenological industry, but what’s surprising, when you get to know Piccini better and you taste their wines, is their dedication to every bottle, an attention to detail which only those who maintain a sincere and visceral approach to the craft can nurture.
Audarya
Audarya is one of the most recently established wineries in Serdiana, in southern Sardinia, a region historically inclined to viticulture. It is an extremely young winery whose history, like the roots of a grape vine, actually stretches back to the previous century and coincides with the history of its owners, the Pala family, winemakers for the past three generations and profound experts of the vineyard and of this land. As passionate interpreters and producers of wine, they have always focused on the main local Sardinian varietals, first among them the Nuragus and the Monica. Their choice of evocative and fantastical labels depicting animals with a human-like appearance is intended to ironically represent the magical world of wine and the conviviality that springs forth from every bottle that’s shared.
The origins of Castello di Vicchiomaggio, originally called Vicchio dei Longobardi, date back to approximately 1400. Long known for its production of extremely high quality wines, it is today run by owners John and Paola Matta who have maintained this tradition.
Located at the top of a hill overlooking the entire Val di Greve, just 18 km from Florence, Castello Vicchiomaggio still preserves, intact, the Castellana homes and defensive walls. Would you like to know an interesting fact? As a stately mansion during the Renaissance, the Castello Vicchiomaggio welcomed numerous prominent individuals as its guests, including Leonardo da Vinci and Francesco Redi.
Giovanna Paternoster represents the fourth generation of a family that has always been active in the oenological world. Hence the name “Quarta Generazione” (“Fourth Generation”): a young and innovative company with, however, a strong foundation built upon four generations of experience. The winery is located in Vulture, in Basilicata, a region that is at times harsh and rugged; where Mount Vulture, once a majestic volcano, lent its name to a varietal that, to this day, continues to pass down its ancient strength: the Aglianico. A powerful and structured wine, by many considered the Barolo of the South, with which Giovanna Paternoster has decided to demonstrate to the entire world the extraordinary quality that is found on the slopes of Mount Vulture.
Originally from the High Langhe, the members of the Adriano family have been farmers since 1900, when grandfather Giuseppe began to cultivate the first vineyards.
The Adrianos represent that specific generation of winemakers who, for more than a century, have produced wines in the Langhe with unfaltering dedication and passion, demonstrating that for them it’s more than just a job: it’s family and tradition. Vittorio is the president of the Federazione Italiana Vignaioli Indipendenti (FIVI) (Federation of Independent Italian Winemakers), which over the years has represented a true corporate production philosophy. In addition to the vineyards, the company owns a preserved forest, as an element of biodiversity, and several hazelnut orchards, these too unweeded. A corner of the Langhe where, immersed in simplicity and hard work, one senses the purest and most genuine spirit of Piedmont.
Young, dynamic, and detail oriented. That’s Giuseppe Serio, who in 2017 assumed the reigns of the family company which for years had produced grapes and bulk wine to sell to the wineries of Northern Italy.
His dream was to transform his Grandpa “Pippi’s” historic company into something big, something that could represent Apulia to the world with the same intensity as he experienced it. It was thus that he made the drastic decision to begin selling only wine in bottles, labeled with a name and last name in order to put himself out there once and for all.
He then renovated his grandfather’s old facility, uncovering the spectacular vaults that make this winery so evocative and convey its history. Character, tradition, and passion are the fundamental values that fuel Giuseppe and are found intact in his various interpretations of the varietal which he has selected to be ambassador of Salento: the Negroamaro.
The history of this company, run by Luca Canevaro, began in 2016 as a branch of the old family farm.
Today Luca manages approximately 8 hectares of fully certified organically farmed vineyards. The choice, from the very beginning, was to stake it all on the region and on the outstanding wines of Tortona’s viticulture. Derthona Timorasso and Barbera Monleale.
After having been completely forgotten since the 1980s, the Timorasso in particular has been the focus of a major comeback. Thanks to the tenacity of several active and enterprising winemakers, it was rediscovered as one of the few Italian wines suitable for aging, leading Piedmont to be recognized not only as the land of outstanding reds, but also whites.
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