Every history has its first steps… Our own takes its start many years ago, thanks to an encounter between Franco and Lucia, our parents, our foundation, our… native vineyard. Without them, nothing of what we are relating here would exist. Thanks to their sacrifices, to their determination as entrepreneurs, to their farsightedness, we two today, Beniamino and Alberto, have been successful in bringing out the finest qualities in the traditional wines in this magnificent corner of Puglia. Grazie, Mom, grazie, Dad!
Beniamino D’Agostino
I have “journeyed” considerably throughout my life, living through a great variety of human and professional experiences…
I have learned much, made decisions and done things that have influenced my life and that of others… Radio disc jockey, lawyer, businessman, traveller, athlete, and, finally, wine producer… the happiest choice of all! Just recently, writer and wine educator Sandro Sangiorgi honoured me by his presence and by his book, The Invention of Joy, an essay that reveals wine as the source of joy in human life. I completely agree with him, since becoming a wine producer has allowed me to explore cultures, and to encounter places and persons of a quality that I had never found in my other “lives.”
Prosit!
Alberto D’Agostino
A professional career that began with the university, from disciple to professor… who would have ever imagined that it
would have veered into the vineyard… no more tie and coat, crowded classrooms with students tensed for exams… now my companions are the winds, the scents of the earth… no more working dinners each the same… now gourmet experiences in every corner of the world, where the art of making wine melds into that of knowing how to promote and sell it, aware that one is offering something of oneself, of one’s own piece of earth, of one’s own soul. It is an occasion of pride to wander anonymously and find one’s wines in the oddest corners of somewhere, overhear the comments of one’s fellow diners, whether flattering or derogatory, since whether they speak well or ill of the wines, the important thing is that they are talking about them...