The wineries represented in Cima’s portfolio are family-run or are cooperatives made up of small farmers. The producers are passionate about making wines that reflect their unique terroir by using estate-grown grapes, practicing sustainable farming methods and minimal intervention.
Marche
This wine region east of Umbria and Tuscany offers one of Italy’s best white wines, Verdicchio, and reds like Rosso Piceno using mainly Sangiovese and Rosso Conero with its predominant Montepulciano grape.
A family-run winery founded in the 1940’s, Gino Gagliardi, his son Umberto and daughter Lara work to produce some of the area’s finest wines. The winery was one of the first to produce Verdicchio di Matelica and the first to sell it in bottle. The geographic location with its particular microclimate and altitude (300-600 meters) is one of the best for cultivating Verdicchio along with the Sangiovese, Merlot and Ciliegiolo grapes.
http://www.vinigagliardi.it/it/index.html
One of the best-known wine regions of Italy along with Tuscany, the grape varietals Nebbiolo, Barbera and Moscato are its stars producing top wines such as Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera and sparkling Moscato.
In the hamlet of Bionzo, Costigliole d’Asti, the Boeri estate has been producing wine since 1890. The vineyards extend over the Bricco Quaglia hill, which offers the perfect terroir for cultivating grapes of the highest quality. Thanks to the favorable terroir and to the winemakers’ commitment to producing natural and carefully crafted wines, Boeri Vini has been acclaimed as one of the most accomplished producers of Barbera in Piedmont. Giorgio and Roberto Boeri, took over management of the winery in 1998 and planted several new vineyards, focusing not only on the traditional Barbera, but also on Moscato, Chardonnay and Nebbiolo.
Founded in 1988 by Piero Gatti, the winery lies on Moncucco hill, in Santo Stefano Belbo, an area renowned for the production of Moscato. Since 2000, Barbara Gatti, the owner, agronomist and enologist, continues to produce wines of excellent quality like Brachetto and Moscato which are the result of the careful selection of the grapes and precise wine-making in the cellar.
https://vinigatti.it/en/azienda-agricola-piero-gatti-moscato-2
Puglia
Puglia, after Veneto, is the region that produces the highest volume of wine in Italy. Wines like Primitivo, known around the world as Zinfandel, other reds like Nero di Troia, Negroamaro and Montepulciano and whites from Bombino Bianco and Falanghina.
Located in San Severo and surrounded by cultivated fields of vines in the Capitanata of Puglia, Attilio Ariano started Cantina Ariano based upon two principles: passion for wine and respect for the environment. Using organic agricultural methods since 1997, the winery is certified organic and run by Attilio’s daughters, Federica, the enologist and Manuela, responsible for the commercial side. The winery’s quality production and service with minimal impact on the environment produce wines from grapes such as Nero di Troia, Primitivo, Negroamaro, Falanghina and Bombino Bianco.
Sicily
Whites such as Grillo, Inzolia, Catarratto make up two-thirds of wine production on Italy’s largest island and Nero d’Avola is the ubiquitous red. And Etna Rosso, from Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio, rivals Barbaresco and Burgundy in its complexity and elegance.
Started in 1887, Carmelo and Tullio Grasso are the fifth genereation to run their family’s winery in Milazzo, Sicily. Combining family tradition with modern and biodynamic practices, the estate produces wines from native red grapes like Nero d’Avola, Frappato and Nerello Mascalese and the white varietals Grillo, Catarratto and Inzolia along with some international grapes, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Portugal
The best-known wine region of Portugal, the dizzyingly terraced vineyards of the Douro Valley are as much a spectacle to the eye as the wines and port produced here using typical grapes like Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Gouveio, Rabigato and Viosinho.
Located on the left bank of the Tua River, in the Douro Superior sub-region, the winery is run by two young winemakers Duarte da Costa and Ana de Almeida. Their passion for wine, international winemaking experience and knowledge of wine tradition in the Douro lead them in the production of harmonious, balanced and elegant wines using white varietals such as Rabigato, Viosinho, Gouveio, Códega do Larinho and reds like Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
https://cortesdotua.pt/en/home-en/
Beira Interior
This central region extends to the Spanish border and Serra da Estrela mountains and produces a wide range of white, rosé and red wines from typical Portuguese grapes such as Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Arinto as well as grapes unique to the region like Jaen, Rufete and Fonte Cal.
Started in 1945, this family-run winery has expanded to produce wines in two areas of the Beira Interior, Quinta dos Termos in Belmonte and Herdade do Lousial in Castelo Branco and Quinta do Pocinho in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in the Douro Superior. 18 red and 11 white varieties are planted, focusing on the indigenous varietals of each location: Touriga Nacional, Rufete, Trincadeira, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Alfrocheiro, Baga, Touriga Franca, Fonte Cal, Síria, Rabigato and Callum along with small plots of international grapes like Syrah, Sangiovese, Petit Verdot and Riesling. Sustainability and precise viticulture allow each vineyard plot to be managed in a unique way, to naturally maximize the potential of each terroir.
Spain
Along with Rioja, this is considered one of the top wine regions in Spain producing sparkling cava and age-worthy oaked reds from a very wide range of grape varietals both native and international.
Sant Sadurni’s Canals & Munné is a small family business producing cavas and wines since 1915. The winery is committed to quality, tradition and modernity, as seen in the promotion of local gastronomy in its old cellar and in the new one used for cava production, all certified as Reserva and Gran Reserva Cavas.
The varieties used at Canals & Munné are: Chardonnay, Macabeu, Xarel-lo, Parellada, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Ull de Llebre, Merlot, Muscat and Sauvignon Blanc.
