Estates
Our Wines, our Estates
The Torre Zambra estate lies on the first plot cultivated by the family from 1910 onwards and is one of the most historic cellars in Abruzzo, founded by Laurentino De Cerchio in 1961, then taken to higher levels by his son Riccardo in subsequent years. The family chose Villamagna as a place to cultivate vines in Abruzzo for …
In the late 1960s, during one of his many trips to Puglia as a wine merchant, grandpa Laurentino De Cerchio came across a family of shepherds as he stood at the side of the road after his car broke down. The shepherds helped him get his car running again and asked him for a lift home, which was close by. They drove past some …
The ochre tones of autumn’s landscape blown away by the easterly winds. Winter’s bitter cold gains the upper hand over nature, fragile and helpless, stripped of its beauty but not of its charm. Short and bleak days resemble a sort of burnt-out love, subsided love. The coming of light and spring bestows new joy. Love’s fire burns again …
Throughout his life Grandpa Laurentino retained the memory of the very hard days of imprisonment during
World War II, spent with his Sicilian fellow soldiers. It was not until almost thirty years later, in 1971, that he fell
in love with a small piece of land overlooking the sea, near Sciacca, in the province of Agrigento. The same sea that swayed in the memories of his companions’ stories and faces to the sou…
Torre Zambra
Idi Di Marzo
Pajaru
Peri Peri