Italy’s Top Slow Wineries

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Italy’s Top Slow Wineries

As a preview to the release of the Slow Wine Guide 2016, we share our shortlist of Italian wineries recognized for their exceptional quality and adherence to the Slow Food philosophy...

In the lead up to the release of the 2016 edition of the Slow Wine Guide, we share with you our best of the best: 188 wineries shortlisted by us for their exceptional quality and adherence to the Slow Food philosophy.

 

The Slow Wine guide takes into consideration not just the quality and taste of the wine, but adherence to terroir, value for money as well as the environmental sustainability of production. Wineries that particularly impressed us for their interpretation of the Slow Food values are marked in the guide with a snail, the symbol of the Slow Food movement. As a preview to the release of the 2016 edition, we are pleased to publish below the complete list of wineries awarded with the snail.

 

All the producers will be on hand to serve and talk about their wines at the Slow Wine Guide 2016 official launch in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, on October 24. If you cant join us, you can always read about them in the Slow Wine magazine, and make sure you leave space in your luggage for the Slow Wine Guide on your next trip to Italy!

 

 

Slow Wine Guide 2016

 

 

New snails in 2016:

 

Barraco – Sicily

Bele Casel – Veneto

Castellucci Miano – Sicily

Cavalleri – Lombardy

Cirelli – Abruzzo Molise

Fontanavecchia – Campania

Gradizzolo, Antonio Ognibene – Emilia Romagna

I Mandorli – Tuscany

Les Granges – Valle d’Aosta

Monte Santoccio, Nicola Ferrari – Veneto

Montisci – Sardinia

Pranzegg, Martin Gojer – Alto Adige

 

 

 

VALLE D’AOSTA

 

La Vrille

Les Granges

 

 

PIEDMONT

 

Alessandria Fratelli

Elio Altare

Anna Maria Abbona

Antichi Vigneti di Cantalupo

Brovia

Ca’ del Baio

Carussin

Cascina Ca’ Rossa

Cascina Corte

Castello di Tassarolo

Cavallotto Fratelli

Conterno Fantino

Dacapo

Elio Grasso

Elvio Cogno

Fiorenzo Nada

G.D. Vajra

Giacomo Brezza & Figli

Giuseppe Rinaldi

Iuli

Le Piane

Luigi Spertino

Pecchenino

Piero Busso

Pira & Figli – Chiara Boschis

Roagna – I Paglieri

San Fereolo

Serafino Rivella

Sottimano

Vigneti Massa

 

 

LIGURIA

 

Cascina delle Terre Rosse

Maria Donata Bianchi

Santa Caterina

Walter De Battè

 

 

LOMBARDY

 

Agnes

Andrea Picchioni

Ar.Pe.Pe.

Barone Pizzini

Cavalleri

Dirupi

Fay

Togni Rebaioli

 

 

TRENTINO

 

Eugenio Rosi

Foradori

Francesco Poli

Gino Pedrotti

Maso Furli

Pojer & Sandri

Redondel

Vignaiolo Fanti

 

 

ALTO ADIGE

 

Cantina Terlano

Kuenhof – Peter Pliger

Manincor

Nusserhof – Heinrich Mayr

Pranzegg – Martin Gojer

Tenutae Lageder

Unterortl – Castel Juval

 

 

VENETO

 

Bele Casel

Casa Coste Piane

Corte Sant’Alda

Fongaro

La Biancara

Le Fraghe

Leonildo Pieropan

Monte dall’Ora

Monte dei Ragni

Monte Santoccio – Nicola Ferrari

Prà

Silvano Follador

Sorelle Bronca

Vigneto Due Santi

Villa Bellini

 

 

FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA

 

Borgo San Daniele

Damijan Podversic

Edi Keber

Gravner

I Clivi

Kante

La Castellada

Le Due Terre

Meroi

Miani

Radikon

Ronco del Gnemiz

Ronco Severo

Skerk

Skerlj

Vignai da Duline

Zidarich

 

 

EMILIA ROMAGNA

 

Camillo Donati

Fattoria Zerbina

Gradizzolo – Ognibene

Paolo Francesconi

Vigne dei Boschi

Villa Venti

Vittorio Graziano

 

 

TUSCANY

 

Badia a Coltibuono

Baricci

Boscarelli

Caiarossa

Caparsa

Castello dei Rampolla

Corzano e Paterno

Fattoi

Fattoria di Bacchereto Terre a Mano

Fattoria Selvapiana

Fontodi

Frascole

I Luoghi

I Mandorli

Il Paradiso di Manfredi

Isole e Olena

Le Chiuse

Le Cinciole

Montenidoli

Monteraponi

Montevertine

Podere Concori

Poderi Sanguineto I e II

Riecine

Salustri

Stefano Amerighi

Tenuta di Valgiano

Val delle Corti

 

 

UMBRIA

 

Adanti

Antonelli San Marco

Barberani – Vallesanta

Fattoria Colleallodole

Palazzone

Paolo Bea

Tabarrini

 

 

MARCHE

 

Andrea Felici

Aurora

Bucci

Collestefano

Fattoria San Lorenzo

La Staffa

Monacesca

Pievalta

 

 

LAZIO

 

Casale della Ioria

Marco Carpineti

Sergio Mottura

 

 

ABRUZZO

 

Cataldi Madonna

Cirelli

Emidio Pepe

Praesidium

Torre dei Beati

Valentini

Valle Reale

 

 

CAMPANIA

 

Antonio Caggiano

Colli di Lapio

Contrada Salandra

Contrade di Taurasi

Fontanavecchia

Luigi Tecce

Maffini

San Giovanni

Tenuta San Francesco

Villa Dora

 

 

PUGLIA

 

Attanasio

d’Araprì

Giancarlo Ceci

Gianfranco Fino

Morella

Paolo Petrilli

Polvanera

Vallone

 

 

BASILICATA

 

Cantine del Notaio

Musto Carmelitano

 

 

CALABRIA

 

‘A Vita

Sergio Arcuri

 

 

SICILY

 

Arianna Occhipinti

Barraco

Castellucci Miano

Cos

Ferrandes

Frank Cornelissen

Girolamo Russo

Graci

I Vigneri

Marco De Bartoli

Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Valdibella

 

 

SARDINIA

 

Giovanni Montisci

Giuseppe Sedilesu

Panevino