WINES AND SPARKLING WINES – The destiny of a winery sometimes arises from a breaking point. In the case of Giannicola Di Carlo, it is a private grief that transforms into a definitive choice: making wine an ethical gesture. “It was not a commercial choice, but a life choice,” he recounts.
It is from there, from that search for meaning, that in 1991 he decided to convert all production to organic, when the term did not yet belong to the lexicon of Italian wine—a foundational act, almost a promise made to the land.
But to truly understand this story, one must start from the places. We are in the heart of hilly Abruzzo, between Ortona, Crecchio, Caldari, and the most renowned municipalities of the province of Chieti, a strip that faces the Adriatic Sea and, behind it, the Maiella.