Carafoli

Cantina Fratelli Carafoli was founded in Ravarino, a small village in Modena by Mauro Carafoli in 1919. Kilometers away from the town of Sorbara, Carafoli has excelled in the production of Lambrusco di Sorbara and Lambrusco di Modena.
Cantina Carafoli is thriving under the third generation with advancements in technology, methods and viticulture. Carafoli elevating the quality of their wines with the purchase of 20 hectares in Sorbara in 1965.

Skerk

Near the Italian-Slovenian border, father and son, Boris and Sandi Skerk, are always aiming for excellence. Azienda Agricola Skerk is marked by the insistence on low-yield, high-density cultivation with focused canopy management and pruning, This care reduces any treatments to the bare minimum and allows the Skerks to makes wines as a way of life rather than as a job.

Franco Toros

Collio Friulano, located in the extreme north-east of Italy, straddles both Italy and Slovenia.The seamless succession of hills forms broad slopes with superb exposure to sunlight.
Franco Toros, a modern wine man who tends his 11ha of vines with old-fashioned skill, transformed the Toros estate and nursed it to its present influential status.

Barale Fratelli

Il Colle

One of the "small jewels in Montalcino's original growing area," Il Colle was once a part of Conti Costanti's Colle al Matrichese, a property that sits at a high altitude of 400-450 meters. Yielding delicate wines, the fruit of these vineyards came to be blended with grapes from a more southern vineyard--Castelnuovo dell'Abate at 220 meters--that the family had purchased in 1998.
Il Colle utilizes natural yeasts, no temperature control, long maceration on skins, and no filtering.

La Palazzetta

Cultivating his vineyards organically, Flavio Fanti is a traditionalist who somewhat straddles the fence. While only utilizing large Slovenian and French oak for his Brunello, he chooses to use various size barrique for his rosso in order to create a wine that is characteristic of Sangiovese Grosso, but incredibly approachable upon release.
Beginning with fruit that is ripe and mature Flavio makes Brunello wines that are big in structure, powerful and pure.

Milziade Antano

Under the shadow of the Tuscan hills hides a beautiful, still under-recognized region known as Umbria. Growing up on his father's small Fattoria, or farm, called Colleallodole, with approximately thirty hectares with about seven under vine, Francesco Antano learned his trade.
Stylistically, Antano is "old school" in winemaking terms, a "garage winemaker", with a lack of intervention in the winery, including no barrique and no high-tech equipment.

Montelvini

The Montelvini family of producers and winemakers owe their 130 year heritage to the respect they hold for their alliance with the land and the growers. And so they continue to treat their vineyards with respect and restraint. Montelvini holds to the same fundamentals and ethical principles year after year to ensure the future of the growers and the Montelvini brand.