Producer Di Cato

ABRUZZO

The Di Cato farm is located on the hills of Vittorito, a small village in the Abruzzo hinterland known since ancient times for the production of wine, between the parks of Majella, Morrone and Sirente. Montepulciano d’Abruzzo was born here. It is a land of large temperature ranges, of clayey and calcareous soils that alternate with black and stony soils, with an average altitude of 400 meters. s.l.m. In 2005 Di Cato Francesco, with the support of his daughter Mariapaola. he decides to transform the love for the land and the passion for the cultivation of the vine, transmitted to him since his childhood by Grandfather Mariano. He begins to recover all the vineyards inherited from his relatives, replant them in part and start them to biological conversion, because he firmly believes that it is the quality of the grapes that makes the quality of the wine: those who transform cannot do better than mother nature. One hectare of vineyard from which you get a Montepulciano and a Cerasuolo which is joined by a Malvasia. In the vineyard and in the cellar there is the minimum intervention. Excluding the use of pesticides or herbicides, we work with grass-cutter and hoe while for the fertilizing of legumes of different species. The treatments include copper and sulfur only if necessary in relation to climatic situations. The wines that derive from it are essential, genuine and natural.