Four generations of the Goretti family have farmed this Pila hillside south of Perugia since the early 1900s. Colli Perugini is the home base, with a second holding bottling Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG.
Tip: Ask for the Colli Perugini whites, still poured at the farm tasting counter here.
Address: Strada del Pino 4, Pila, 06132 Perugia PG, Italy, Umbria
Nicola restarted his grandfather Zino's 1978 vineyards on the Trasimeno hillside in 2003, on a sixty-hectare property with eleven under vine. The ten-wine range carries playful names, sold mainly from the estate itself.
Tip: The estate spans three separate hills above Vaiano, call ahead to confirm the tasting location.
Family-run Agricola Spacchetti estate on the Colle Ciocco hillside outside Montefalco, farming since 1870. Sagrantino and Grechetto go mostly to the cellar door rather than a large distribution network.
Tip: Call ahead before driving out, the tasting room keeps farmhouse hours rather than a fixed schedule.
The Cesarini Sartori family left other careers in the late 1990s to replant vines at a site tied to the old Osteria del Bastardo. Thirty hectares split across three plots, organic farming on the Villa Rode parcel.
Tip: Ask for the Rossobastardo blend, it carries the innkeeper legend the estate is named after.
A Bevagna estate whose range runs from Sagrantino Passito to a Moscato passito called Scialo, produced under an organic-leaning approach the family sets out on its own site rather than through a distributor.
Tip: The Scialo Moscato passito outrates several of the estate's reds on independent review sites.
