Adopt a Vine - Boccella Farm

TAURASI AREA - CASTELFRANCI (AV)

In the "Adopt a vine" package -> Bottles of Taurasi "Sant'Eustachio" DOCG

A brief history of the company "Azienda Agricola Boccella":

The Boccella Farm was founded in 1960, when Giuseppe Boccella, returning from abroad, decided to buy a piece of land in the municipality of Castelfranci and plant the first vineyard, precisely at the top of the village of S.Eustachio at 600 meters above sea level. Later, his sons Raffaele and Giovanni, married to two sisters Angela and Lucia, continued the activity of winemakers and decided in 2005 to enter the wine market. It is a small family-run company certified organic.

Organic certification was only the goal of those who have always produced wines respecting the surrounding environment, where man and vineyard integrate creating a symbiotic relationship, intervening as little as possible both in the vineyard and in the cellar to try to give consumers a product that respects the peasant tradition and is as natural as possible.

Castelfranci is located on the left bank of the Calore River, next to the municipality of Paternopoli and opposite that of Montemarano, which instead lies on the opposite bank of the same river. These three municipalities, with their best vineyards, provide the basic grapes for what are considered some of the most typical Taurasi ever and among the best Italian red wines of recent years.

At the top of the Villaggio S.Eustachio at almost 600 meters above sea level, the Boccella family works on the vineyards and wines, in love with the Aglianico that here, from vines of almost 50 years, they manage to produce so typical and personal at the same time. It is as if the balsamic strength of these wines came directly from the cold rigor of the Irpinia hills, from the woods that are still and fortunately visible at every step. Raffaele and Giovanni, Angela and Lucia, two brothers and two sisters, continue the work of the founder Giuseppe with the curiosity to understand more and more about their land, their main grape variety, their wines.

On the slope of a hill of about 600 meters in the municipality of Castelfranci, the vineyard just below our houses produces the Aglianico that, with care, patience and effort, we make into this wine. Our Taurasi, not clarified or stabilized, takes advantage exclusively of the rigid winter temperatures of our lands and is put on the market after at least a year of aging in the bottle.
Aglianico just below Taurasi. The vineyard that is located below our cellars, just below our houses, "Rasott". The vineyard that gives life, with its oldest plants, to our flagship wine, Taurasi, contributes together with our work to give Rasott the elegance of a high hill wine, an expression of our human-scale viticulture. This Aglianico, fermented in steel for 15 days and without particular technological interventions, was partly refined in oak barrels and then bottled without filtration or clarification