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The province of Benevento has been producing excellent grapes for exceptional wines for centuries and accounts for about 40% of the vineyard area in the Campania Region.
If, as we believe, "wine is made in the vineyard," our vineyards express this noble concept with stubborn determination: our true strength lies in a combination of soil quality, exposure, altitude, and vineyard care.
Here are our grape varieties: Aglianico del Taburno, in sufficient quantity to allow for careful vineyard selection for different sales lines and to ensure the production of highly prestigious wines such as Riserva, whose grapes come from a vineyard of about seventy years of age.
Falanghina del Taburno, whose vineyard exposure guarantees optimal results in terms of sugar content, aromas, and wine acidity without the need for cuts during processing.
Currently, we select the Greco and Fiano vineyards externally for our productions, imposing strict and meticulous cultivation regulations on the growers: once the lands and vineyards are identified, they are followed through all the essential steps until the harvest, which takes place under our supervision.
Lastly, we proudly present our flagship wines: the sparkling Falanghina, the sparkling Aglianico, and our highly prized "Maleventum," a sparkling Falanghina made using the long Charmat method.
Torrecuso, where La Fortezza is located, extends on the eastern slope of the hillside, where vineyards, woods, and small clearings alternate continuously, with only in the last hours of the day the profile of Monte Taburno taking away light and warmth.
Here, the work of humans, the diligent actions of farmers, have not devastated, invaded, or defiled.
Our territory is rugged and generous at the same time.
Those who choose to understand, delve deeper, and learn will grasp in our attachment to our land the profound meaning of Sannio pride:
awareness and the dimension of a freedom that was once only a desire to defend our land from Roman armies, but today is an attachment to what it represents and expresses in terms of culture, folklore, and productions.