Family producer with roots in Montefalco winegrowing back to 1919, estate-bottling since 2003 under brothers Gianluca Rio and Alberto Mario Pardi, covering all four Montefalco designations.
Tip: One of the few estates bottling the full Montefalco set: dry and Passito Sagrantino, Rosso and Bianco.
Address: Via G. Pascoli 7/9, 06036 Montefalco PG, Italy, Umbria
Bevagna estate dating to 1896 when Gabriele Dionigi moved his family from Assisi to the hills near Bevagna, now certified organic and producing the full Montefalco range plus Colli Martani Grechetto.
Tasting: Guided tours, tastings and on-site guest accommodation; ballooning partnership for aerial estate views.
Tip: Look for the Sagrantino Passito alongside the estate's dry Rosso Riserva and Grechetto Vigna del Brillo.
Spacchetti family estate on the hill of the same name just outside Montefalco, farming 19 hectares split between Sagrantino and other grapes and olive groves, also producing grappa and olive oil.
Tasting: Contact the estate directly for cellar visits and tastings.
Tip: The estate calls its hillside 'Terra del Sagrantino', the historic heart of the denomination.
A career-change estate started in the late 1990s by the Cesarini Sartori family at Torri di Barattano near Gualdo Cattaneo, farming 30 hectares of Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Tasting: Contact the estate, operated as Aliara Vini Societa Agricola, to arrange a visit.
Tip: The estate trades under the legal name Aliara Vini Societa Agricola.
Bevagna estate dating to 1896 when Gabriele Dionigi moved his family from Assisi to the hills near Bevagna, now certified organic and producing the full Montefalco range plus Colli Martani Grechetto.
Tasting: Guided tours, tastings and on-site guest accommodation; ballooning partnership for aerial estate views.
Tip: Look for the Sagrantino Passito alongside the estate's dry Rosso Riserva and Grechetto Vigna del Brillo.
Spacchetti family estate on the hill of the same name just outside Montefalco, farming 19 hectares split between Sagrantino and other grapes and olive groves, also producing grappa and olive oil.
Tasting: Contact the estate directly for cellar visits and tastings.
Tip: The estate calls its hillside 'Terra del Sagrantino', the historic heart of the denomination.
A career-change estate started in the late 1990s by the Cesarini Sartori family at Torri di Barattano near Gualdo Cattaneo, farming 30 hectares of Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Tasting: Contact the estate, operated as Aliara Vini Societa Agricola, to arrange a visit.
Tip: The estate trades under the legal name Aliara Vini Societa Agricola.
Founded by enology pioneer Giorgio Lungarotti and now led by daughters Chiara and Teresa, the estate that effectively created Torgiano DOC and Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG, with a Montefalco estate as well.
Tasting: Vineyard tours, cellar visits and barrel tastings in a temperature-controlled ageing cave; reservations by phone or email.
Tip: Rubesco is the flagship Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG; the family-founded Museo del Vino sits in Torgiano's old town.
A 52-hectare certified-organic vineyard at Miralduolo di Torgiano, run under the Margaritelli industrial group and one of only a handful of estates inside the small Torgiano DOC zone.
Tasting: Cellar visits bookable through the estate's own site.
Tip: Greco di Renabianca and Pictoricius are among the estate's Torgiano-labelled wines.
A 14th-century fortress near Ficulle in the Antinori portfolio, farming 229 of 600 hectares between 220 and 470 metres, known for the barrel-aged white Cervaro della Sala and botrytised Muffato della Sala.
Tasting: Cellar and estate visits arranged through the Antinori family's central booking contact.
Tip: Cervaro della Sala, first made in 1985, pairs Procanico-Grechetto fruit with barrique-aged Chardonnay.
