Over the past seven years with the assistance of our friends Gaetano Petrillo of The Wine Bus, and Manuela Piancastelli and Peppe Mancini of Terre del Principe (who are in photo above with me and Roseann), we have visited 52 wineries in Southern Italy; several on more than one occasion; Terre del Principe six times, Le Vigne di Raito, Reale and Molettieri five times, and Perillo, Antonio Caggiano, Bambinuto and La Sibilla four times. We support small family run wineries that adhere to natural or sustainable viticulture and/or are certified as organic or biodynamic. We have shared wines from all the wineries visited with family and friends.
Here is the list, by region and province of wineries visited. The number in parenthesis equals number of times visited. The names of who we met with are included. Note in a separate post I will describe our plans for this year.
Campania
Avellino
Salvatore Molettieri (5) – We met Salvatore Molettieri, Angela (wife) Giovanni, Theresa, Salvatore and Angela (son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren); Guiseppe and Paolo (sons)
Michele Perillo (4) – We met Michele, Anna Romano (wife), Nicola and Felice (sons)
Antonio Caggiano (4) – We met Antonio and Pino (son)
Bambinuto (4) We met Marilena Auifro, Franco (husband), Camillo and Anna Marie (children)
Il Cancelliere (2) We met Claudio Panetta and his wife Nadia Romano
Quintodecimo (1) We met Luigi Moio
Tecce (1) We met Luigi Tecce
Villa Raiano (1) We met Alessia Canarino
Di Meo (1) We met Antonio Della Porta, Paola Capone and Anna Acera
Tenuta Pepe Cavaliere (1) We met Nadia Spagnola
Ciro Picariello (1) We met Ciro Picariello and his wife Rita, daughter Emma and son Bruno
Cantine Lonardo/Contrade di Taurasi (1) We met Flavio Castaldo
De Santis (1) We met Alberto De Santis
Antico Castello (1) We met Francesco Romano, sister Chiara and mother Fiorenza
Salerno
Le Vigne di Raito (5) We met Patrizia Malagna, daughter Valentina, daughter Alexia, husband Stelio and consultant/interpreter Alfonso Mauro
Reale (5) We met Luigi Reale and brother Gaetano
Casa di Baal (2) We met Annibale Salerno, wife Anna, daughters Francesca and Laura, niece Serena
De Conciliis (1) We met Luigi De Conciliis
Apicella (1) We met Prisco Apicella
San Giovanni (1) we met Ida Corrado and husband Mario
Mila Vuolo (1) We met Mila Vuolo
Luigi Maffini (1) We met Luigi Maffini
Casebianche (1) We met Betty Iurio and husband Pasquale Mitrano
Monte di Grazia (1) We met Dr. Alfonso Arpino
Verrone (1) We met Paolo and Massimo Verrone
Salvatore Magnoni (1) We met Salvatore Magnoni
Campania
Terre del Principe (6) We met Manuela Piancastelli and Pepe Mancini
Galardi (1) We met Maria Luisa Murena
Nanni Cope (1) We met Giovanni Ascione
Regina Viarum (1) We met Elda Maddalena, Pasquale Angelino, Amalia Angelino and consultant Gennaro Reale
Napoli
La Sibilla (4) We met Restituta Somma Luigi (father/husband), Vncenzo, Salvatore. Massimo de Meo
Contea di Sylva Mala (2) We met Euclide Sevadido
Cantine Astroni (1) We met Emanuela Russo
Agnanum (1) We met Raffaela Moccia
Benevento
Antica Masseria Venditti (1) We met Nicola, Loranza and Andrea Venditti
Mustilli (1) We met Paola Mustilli
Basilicata
Potenza
Cantina del Notaio (2) We met Amilcare Grieco
Tenuta le Querce (1) We met Francesca Rizzi
Eubea (1) We met Eugenia Sasso
D’Angelo (1) We met Rocco D’Angelo, sister Ermina, husband Antonio Passannante
Colli Cerentino (1) We met Sandro Calabrese
Carbone (1) We met Luca Carbone
Basilisco (1) We met Vivianna Malafarina
Elena Fucci (1) We met Elena Fucci
Michele Laluce (1) We met Michele Laluce, daughter Maddalena
Carmelitano (1) We met Elisabetta Musto Carmelitano and consultant Fortunato Sebastiano
Paternoster (1) We met Vito Paternoster
Apulia
Foggia
Antica Enotria (1) We met Luigi Di Tuccio
Bari
Botromagno (1) We visited Vincenzo Calabrese
Plantamura (1) We met Mariangela Plantamura
Pietraventosa (1) We met Marianna Leo
Polvanera (1) We met Filippo Cassano