Tenuta Del Conte

In Cirò, where the Ionian Sea breeze meets the backdrop of Sila, the Parilla family has tended Tenuta del Conte for four generations, with Francesco Parrilla passing on fifteen hectares of vines and a deep respect for the land to Mariangela, Giuseppe, and Caterina. Rooted in a landscape shaped by ancient hands, from Punta Alice and the Gulf of Taranto up toward the hills near Crucoli and Melissa, the estate draws inspiration from the area’s long winemaking memory, traced on site back to the Greeks and the Enotri peoples. Their philosophy is to protect harmony in the terroir through organic farming since 2010, using practices like burying flowering legumes to enrich the soil, letting natural grasses grow and be cut to balance vigor, avoiding fertilizers, and relying only on sulfur and copper when treatments are needed. In the cellar, they lean on careful timing and restraint, harvesting after close tasting and observation, then working with spontaneous fermentation, traditional methods, no selected yeasts, and only a very limited use of sulphites so each vintage can evolve in its own rhythm.

From tenutadelconte.it