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Estate & TerroirTorrecuso, Benevento
Fontanavecchia
The ancient Phoenician grape Falanghina at its purest and most thirst-quenching.
Falanghina del Sannio
The Estate Story
A family rooted in Torrecuso
The ancient Phoenician grape Falanghina at its purest and most thirst-quenching.
The Rillo family founded Fontanavecchia in Torrecuso in 1971, dedicating themselves to the Sannio's native Falanghina — a grape the Phoenicians are believed to have brought to Campania nearly three thousand years ago. Today Libero Rillo tends the hillside vineyards that catch cool breezes from Monte Pentime.
The result is Campania's most beloved everyday white: fresh, blossom-scented and thirst-quenching, with a biting green-apple acidity and a lingering crushed-seashell finish that speaks straight from its limestone soils.
Fontanavecchia is one of the independent estates Luigi & Jo Di Caprio visit each harvest, tasting from barrel to bottle before a single case ships to our Surrey bonded cellar.
The Terroir
The soil that shapes the wine
Torrecuso's hills rise above Benevento, open to the breezes that funnel down from Monte Pentime. The clay-limestone soils keep the Falanghina lively and aromatic, while the constant wind dries the canopy and concentrates the grapes' floral character.
SoilClay-limestone and tufo over calcareous subsoil
Altitude350m on the Sannio hills
ClimateMediterranean-continental — cooled by Monte Pentime breezes
From the Winemaker
Libero Rillo
Falanghina is Campania's everyday joy — the wine we drink with family at the table. We keep it honest: no oak, no tricks, just the grape and the Sannio hillside.
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