Our cellars in the prestigious TOP 50 ranking of FOOD&WINE

With four objective criteria - innovation, sustainability, export and hospitality - the Claudio Quarta Vignaiolo wineries win another prestigious award. The masthead of Food&Wine Italia, the tricolor edition of the famous US masthead, has in fact recognized the title of "best winery of the year" to the production realities of the former geneticist biologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur (head of the first Italian biotechnology company listed on the stock exchange) for 18 years now – next January – winemaker in Puglia and Irpinia.

The "wine special" published in the newsstand issue of Food&Wine Italia, the magazine directed by Federico De Cesare Viola, took various aspects into account: "the "very urgent" challenge ” of climate change, generational turnover, the need to adapt to the constantly evolving needs of wine tourism and to offer an increasingly complete and immersive experience in the cellar, and the desire to innovate production processes without betraying one's identity, ability to explore and conquer new markets, the courage to keep the bar straight, sensitivity to good practices and social responsibility”. Of this, the director writes in his editorial, account was taken in choosing the best 50 Italian wineries "among the many, deserving and diverse wineries that we have in Italy, a country rich in this sense like no other".

There is a fifth criterion adopted in drawing up the 50 TOP wineries, as stated in the special: the "coup de coeur which concerns the winemakers and companies that have moved us, through the goodness of their wines and the value of their human journey ”.

“We are very happy”, comments Alessandra who joins her father at the helm of the two Apulian wineries, Tenute Emèra in Lizzano and Moros in Guagnano, and of Cantina Sanpaolo in Irpinia, “because it is a recognition of patient work, that we do in our three cellars, increasingly convinced that we must be wine producers by combining the quality of taste and the identity of the natives with environmental, economic and even social sustainability. Thanks for this award certainly go to the team of men and women who have always supported us in this precious work".