Fontorfio

Fontorfio is an ancient source located at the foot of the vineyards and the house that years ago we decided should be the place to spend the future years of our lives. Fontorfio is in Cossignano, a small medieval village in the Marche hinterland halfway between the Sibillini mountains and the sea. A country that has always lived of agriculture and Fontorfio was a farm that cultivated olive trees, cereals, grapes, produced wine and raised cattle. Here we arrived years ago, and here we are continuing old farmers’ work, maintaining their methods of processing, essentially manual, without the use of modern mechanics, without chemistry and with the intention of preserving the territory.

The farmhouse is located at the highest point of the property and it is partly built over an old oven used to bake the bricks. Some parts of the building are a few hundred years old and all the construction has undergone several transformations hosting many families over the centuries. We know that several families of sharecroppers also lived there at the same time. During the renovation several walled doors and windows and sites of old fireplaces were found. The ground floor on our arrival was used partly as a cellar and partly as a stable that also had access with a hatch from the upper rooms.

In our cellar we do not use selected yeasts, we do not use sophisticated wine making practices, no filtration. The use of sulfur is reduced to a minimum and in some cases is zero.