If our founder Scipione di Marzo had had to describe his new life in Tufo, he probably would have said:
“a solitary vine, the constant action of the weather and mother nature always there, the constant toil of man who trying to master the elements as best he can, to care for the land and the plants, to grow the best fruit possible.
Then the harvest, a collective work, the climax of many months of work, then the wine making and the bottling, before the ageing in the bottle.
It is 1647 and a new year is about to dawn.”
Since then, many other years have come and gone, nearly four hundred of them, and, to think of it, not much has changed. Naturally the world has evolved and Cantine di Marzo has become an established winery, but this artisan spirit with which we continue to produce wine, in the vineyards and in the winery, has remained the same.
We are proud of our limited production, and equally proud of how different our bottles taste each year. Every vintage is a story in itself and each bottle tells, to the person who opens it, each time differently, the tale of long-gone geological ages and weather events that shaped it, of the toil in the vine and in the winery, of the ageing in the bottle.
When Vitantonio di Marzo officially founded the “Azienda Agraria di Marzo” in 1827, it was difficult to imagine the importance and economic development that wine would bring to Avellino and its province.
The acknowledgement of quality of Hirpinia wines would come more than a century later, with the designation of 3 DOC’s for as many Hirpinia wines. The global market was still nonexistent and nobody even immagined it would come to be.
In spite of turbulent socio-economic conditions, the di Marzo family showed a certain business acumen and foresight, founding the first modern winery of Campania as witnessed by the original document dating back to 1832 kept in the archives of the Chamber of Commerce of Avellino. It is one of the oldest wineries in Southern Italy, which, registering as a company, gave a boost to the economy of Tufo from the very beginning.
In 1832, the Azienda Agricola di Marzo was registered at the chamber of commerce of Avellino. At that time nobody would have imagined the importance and the development wine would have undergoine in Avellino and its province.
The acknowledgement of quality of Hirpinia wines would come more than a century later, with the designation of 3 DOC’s for as many Hirpinia wines. The global market was still nonexistent and nobody even immagined it would come to be.
In spite of turbulent socio-economic conditions, the di Marzo family showed a certain business acumen and foresight, founding the first modern winery of Campania as witnessed by the original document dating back to 1832 kept in the archives of the Chamber of Commerce of Avellino. It is one of the oldest wineries in Southern Italy, which, registering as a company, gave a boost to the economy of Tufo from the very beginning.
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Today, Cantine di Marzo exports its premium wines in four continents thanks to a young team, the last segment of a four-hundred-year-old thread.
We haven’t got the pretence to answer for other wineries, but we have no doubts as to our future plans.
So, you want to know what future wines will be like? Not very different from the past ones, at least for us.
Let’s be clear: this doesn’t mean we intend to fossilize, because that would be literally suicidal, especially in a totally globalized and, to say the least, hypercompetitive market like today’s. We are convinced, however, that evolving, progressing, and responding to new consumer needs are not objectives that conflict with the age-old principles that inspire our daily actions—quite the opposite.
Every day, we try to prove that, to be present in the market without stooping down to compromises, is possible, this, thanks to a solid well established history of little under four centuries and a firm concept of “nature and man” that has always inspired Cantine di Marzo.
For four centuries we have been the guardians of Hirpinia wine tradition, and we have the firm intention of continuing to do so.