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Italian wine reads like a map of peninsulas and islands, one of them a prison vineyard. Cantina Cinque Terre bottles the Cinque Terre DOC white and the Sciacchetrà passito, cellar tastings included. Frescobaldi Gorgona grows its white wine on a prison-rehabilitation vineyard island. In Chianti country, Castello di Ama pairs single-vineyard Classico with contemporary art on the estate. Cured meats and abbey estates fill the gaps between the vineyards. Cellar-door tastings favour the traveller over the shipper: that is what this plate is for.
Via Garibaldi, Bellagio
Alimentari da Caio is a small grocery on Via Garibaldi in Bellagio's old centre, run by Claudio Moneta and stocked with olive oils pressed around Lake Como, including a Bellagio oil and a Vanini oil. Its shelves gather wine, pesto, truffle products and balsamic from small Italian producers across Umbria, Sicily and Puglia.
Best for Lake Como olive oil and pantry goods
Italy
Family knitwear house founded in 1953 in Crevalcore, near Bologna, by Adelmo Collina and Livia Setti; their son Roberto launched the namesake menswear line at Pitti Uomo in the early 1980s, adding womenswear in 1990.
Best for Experimental-gauge knitwear from three generations of Bolognese knit-making
The label traces to 1953, when Adelmo Collina and his wife Livia Setti started a small knitwear workshop, with an attached training school, in Crevalcore, a town north of Bologna. In the years after the Second World War the operation produced sweaters for German and other Northern European markets. In the early 1980s their son Roberto Collina put his own name on a small capsule collection of men's jumpers, presented at the Pitti Uomo trade fair in Florence. A women's collection followed in 1990. The company remains based in Crevalcore, where it now employs more than 50 people.
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A working estate on the hill of Verrazzano between Florence and Siena, birthplace of the navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, farming organic vineyards for Chianti Classico. Guided cellar tours run daily, and wines ship through the estate's regional online stores.
Best for Chianti Classico and cellar tours
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Agricole Vallone traces back to Commendatore Vincenzo De Marco's late-1800s wine estate, consolidated in 1934 when a marriage joined the Tenuta Flaminio and Tenuta Iore properties, with Castel Serranova added in the 1960s. The Lecce-based family firm now farms 500 hectares across three Salento estates and bottles sixteen labels, including its long-running Vigna Flaminio rosato.
Best for Salento estate wines, especially Vigna Flaminio rosato
Guagnano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Cantele family returned to their native Salento to found this winery near Lecce, building a reputation for showcasing native Negroamaro and Primitivo alongside international varieties. The estate has become one of the most exported names in Puglian wine without leaving family ownership.
Best for Negroamaro and Primitivo from the Salento
Scorrano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Guarini family's cellars in Scorrano, outside Lecce, are documented across roughly nine centuries. The estate bottles Salento reds, whites, rosati and passiti from native grapes and runs a working cucina for cellar dinners.
Best for Centuries-old Salento estate wines
Lucca / Italy
Tenuta del Buonamico is a wine estate at Montecarlo in the Lucca hills, producing Tuscan wines, sparkling spumante and estate olive oil since 1964. Its on-site Enoteca sells the estate's bottles to visitors alongside guided cellar tours and tastings.
Best for Winery, wine, spumante, olive oil
Matera / Italy / Online
Il Buongustaio is a Matera shop specialising in typical Lucanian foods, from peperoni cruschi and Caciocavallo Podolico to local pasta, cured meats, preserves and wines. Its online store sells the full range with free shipping on orders over 100 euros.
Best for Specialty Food, Regional Foods, Lucanian
Padua / Italy
Open on Corso Milano since 1980, this Padua wine shop pours and sells bottles from a deep cellar and even makes its own labels such as Pavano and Ottanta Rose. Regulars come for the by-the-glass mescita, kitchen plates and a house selection that also travels through the shop's online arm.
Best for Wine shop, enoteca, spirits
Milano / Multiple
Wine bar and retail — 1,000+ Italian labels, the Corso Como location, and the enoteca that lets you drink what you buy at table price.
Best for 1,000 Italian wines, drink-what-you-buy, enoteca.
Montalcino / Italy
Founded in 1970 by a small group of growers, this Montalcino winery makes Rosso, Brunello and its 4Q Riserva from vineyards spread across the appellation's four quadrants. Visitors can tour the contemporary cellar and taste the wines by booking directly with the team.
Best for Winery, Brunello, Rosso-di-Montalcino, Sangiovese
Montalcino / Italy / Online
A Montalcino enoteca offering an extensive catalogue of Brunello, Rosso and other Tuscan wines for tasting and purchase. Bottles can be bought in the shop or ordered through its online store.
Best for Montalcino enoteca offering an extensive catalogue of Brunello
Montalcino / Italy
Set inside Montalcino's medieval fortress with views over the Val d'Orcia, this enoteca was founded in 1980. It sells local and international wines and hosts guided Brunello tastings in its stone-walled rooms.
Best for Wine-shop, enoteca, Brunello, wine-tasting
Montalcino / Italy
A historic wine shop on Montalcino's central Piazza del Popolo, trading since 1988 and specialising in Brunello di Montalcino alongside Chianti Classico and Vino Nobile. The shelves also hold local extra-virgin olive oil, honey and saffron, and bottles can be shipped worldwide.
Best for Historic wine shop on Montalcino's central Piazza del Popolo
C.da Tramontana, 90010 Ustica (Palermo), Sicily, Italy
Margherita Longo's certified-organic farm on Ustica grows the Slow Food Presidium Ustica lentils and makes island wines. Its olive oil comes from Sicilian groves around Erice in Trapani.
Best for Lenticchia di Ustica; island wines
Parma / Italy
Parma delicatessen trading since 1952 on family recipes passed down through generations. The counter stocks regional cured meats, cheeses and wines representing the city's food traditions.
Best for Family-recipe Parma cured meats and cheese since 1952.
Parma / Italy
Trading in Parma since 1956, Enoteca Galvani carries more than 1,500 labels of wine, champagne and spirits across its shop and online store. The Via Emilia Est counter keeps regular hours while rapid nationwide shipping serves buyers further afield.
Best for Wine, champagne, spirits, enoteca
Pavia / Italy
Enrico Vigoni first baked the Torta Paradiso here in 1878, and the Pavia pasticceria still sells the vanilla-and-lemon cake that became a city symbol. Its Strada Nuova premises pair a pastry shop and online store with a bistrot and wine cellar.
Best for Pastry, Torta Paradiso, cakes, wine
Pienza / Italy
Antichi Sapori di Pienza is the Zazzeri family’s food shop in Pienza’s historic center, selling Pecorino di Pienza, Cinta Senese cured meats, Tuscan wines, olive oil, pasta and traditional sweets sourced with local dairies and farms. Its online shop also carries preserves, sauces, honey, aged cheeses and gift baskets, extending the Val d’Orcia pantry range beyond the physical Pienza shop.
Best for Pecorino di Pienza cheese, Cinta Senese cured meats, and Tuscan wines
Pienza / Italy
La Taverna del Pecorino is a Pienza food shop run by Matteo Pasquetti, selling aged Pecorino cheeses, Tuscan cured meats, truffle products, and regional wines. The shop holds a 4.9-star Google rating and ships its curated selection nationwide through its online store.
Best for Aged Pecorino cheeses, Tuscan cured meats, truffle products
Porto Mantovano / Italy
Latteria Sociale Mantova is a dairy cooperative that has pressed Grana Padano since 1929, working around 700,000 kilograms of milk a day into roughly 1,380 wheels across four cheese-houses. Its retail store in Porto Mantovano sells the co-op's cheeses and butter alongside Mantuan specialties like pumpkin ravioli, salami and wines, with tastings offered on site.
Best for Grana Padano, cheese making, dairy
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Azienda Agricola Caparsa has farmed organic Sangiovese vineyards in Radda in Chianti since Paolo Cianferoni's father planted them in 1965, and the estate's 17th-century cellar now doubles as its direct-sale wine shop and tasting room. Visitors can buy the Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino and other estate bottlings on site by reservation.
Best for Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino and cellar tastings
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Castello di Radda is a winery surrounded by its own Sangiovese vineyards overlooking the medieval village of Radda in Chianti, certified 100% organic since 2020. The estate sells its Chianti Classico Gran Selezione, Riserva and other bottlings through a dedicated wine club and welcomes visitors for cellar experiences booked in advance.
Best for Organic-certified Chianti Classico Gran Selezione overlooking medieval Radda
Radda In Chianti / Italy
L'Erta di Radda is a small family winery founded in 2006 by Diego Finocchi, who bought five hectares of old vines near the historic center of Radda in Chianti and now personally oversees everything from pruning to sales. His Chianti Classico, which won 3 Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso in 2022, is sold through the estate's own online shop.
Best for Chianti Classico from old vines, 3 Bicchieri-rated by Gambero Rosso
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Podere Terreno is a family-run Chianti Classico winery and holiday farmhouse dating to the 1400s, nestled near the Volpaia Castle with vineyards farmed since the estate's replanting more than thirty years ago. Visitors can taste and buy its Chianti Classico, Riserva and Vigna Cattiva wines directly at the on-site wine cellar by reservation.
Best for Chianti Classico, Riserva, and Vigna Cattiva wines tasted at the on-site cellar
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Premiata Fattoria di Castelvecchi has made wine on the hills above Radda in Chianti for a thousand years, and today produces Chianti Classico crus like Capotondo, Lodolaio and Madonnino della Pieve from eleven historic vineyards. The estate, part of the Casa Paladin group, sells its bottlings through an affiliated online wine shop and welcomes visitors for tastings booked in advance.
Best for Capotondo, Lodolaio and Madonnino della Pieve Chianti Classico
Gourmet & Food, Rome / Online
Buccone is a Rome enoteca selling wine by the bottle and serving pours in a former coach house. Bottle retail is genuine, though hospitality and tasting are equally central to the visit.
Best for Old-Rome wine shopping.
Via Roma, Monterosso al Mare
A wine shop and tasting room on Monterosso's Via Roma, family-run since 1996, specializing in Cinque Terre wine and typical products. Its shelves carry salted anchovies, pesto, Monterosso lemons, olive oil and cured meats alongside local and Italian bottles.
Best for Cinque Terre wine and larder goods
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Enoteca Regionale Palatium is Lazio's regional showcase enoteca near the Spanish Steps.
Best for Lazio wines and pantry.
Rome
A historic wine bar near the Pantheon that has been serving Roman drinkers since the 19th century.
Best for Historic wine bar since the 19th century
Via dei Giubbonari 21, Centro Storico, Rome
The Roscioli family cure their own guanciale, stock over three hundred cheeses, and serve a carbonara purists dream about.
Best for House-cured guanciale and 300-plus cheeses
Via Cernaia 37b, Castro Pretorio, Rome
A Rome wine shop, founded in 1821. Trimani has been selling wine to Romans for over 200 years — the shop stocks over 5,000 labels from Italy and beyond.
Best for 5,000-plus wine labels and Rome enoteca pours
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
A family farm of roughly 12 hectares around a late-1700s farmhouse whose name refers to the hard, stony soil beneath it, producing Chianti Classico, Riserva and IGT Sangiovese wines. The estate also runs the nearby Le Trappoline agriturismo.
Best for Small-farm Chianti Classico and IGT Sangiovese
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Winemaking has gone on at this former Vallombrosan abbey since 1051, and the Stucchi Prinetti family now farms it organically for Chianti Classico and estate extra-virgin olive oil. The 800-hectare property also runs a wine resort, restaurant and cellar tastings.
Best for Organic Chianti Classico and olive oil from an ancient abbey estate
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
The Ricasoli family has farmed the land around Castello di Brolio since 1141, and their ancestor Bettino codified the original Chianti recipe here in the 19th century. The 1,200-hectare estate produces Chianti Classico and Gran Selezione wines plus olive oil and vinegar, with an online shop, osteria and castle tours.
Best for Chianti Classico from Italy's oldest wine family and the Brolio castle
Loc. Castagnoli, Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Brothers Daniele and Carlo Cantalici make organic Chianti Classico, IGT reds, rosé and olive oil at the Ridolfo furnace, a building with sections dating to the 16th century. They sell direct through an on-site shop and online store and host tastings at the estate.
Best for Organic Chianti Classico and tastings from a family winery
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Founded in 1974 around a 17th-century villa and 10.5 hectares of land, Capannelle is a small-scale winery making Chianti Classico Riserva and Gran Selezione, Chardonnay, rosé and the 50&50 blend with Avignonesi. The estate also produces extra-virgin olive oil and Chianti Classico grappa and runs a caveau and wine resort.
Best for Boutique-scale Chianti Classico and the 50&50 blend
Lecchi in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
In the hamlet of Ama between Siena and Florence, this estate makes single-vineyard Chianti Classico and extra-virgin olive oil and is known for placing the winemaker alongside contemporary artists. Its ongoing art project has installed site-specific works across the cellars and grounds, with a wine shop for direct purchase.
Best for Single-vineyard Chianti Classico and contemporary art on the estate
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
A fortified castle that has stood above Gaiole in Chianti since 1256, now producing Chianti Classico from its surrounding vineyards. The estate sells direct through an online shop and wine club and runs an osteria, rooms and villas on the grounds.
Best for Chianti Classico and cellar tastings at a medieval castle
Castagnoli, Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Set in the hilltop hamlet of Castagnoli, this Tenute Calì estate grows and vinifies Chianti Classico and other estate products in the heart of Gaiole. The winery sells direct online and hosts tastings, experiences and stays at its wine relais.
Best for Chianti Classico and a wine relais in a hilltop hamlet
San Quirico d'Orcia, Siena, Tuscany
This family winery in the Val d'Orcia produces Orcia DOC wines near San Quirico d'Orcia. Its cellar hosts tastings of the estate's bottlings.
Best for Orcia DOC wine tasting
Turin / Italy
TUVE distills and bottles its Drapo vermouth, gin, and Barolo Chinato at its Turin plant on Strada del Cascinotto, drawing on family recipes and the city's centuries-old vermouth tradition. Its shop on Piazza CLN sells the range in person, alongside an online store with delivery.
Best for Wine & Spirits, Vermouth
Isola del Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago), Grosseto
Francesco Carfagna restored the island's abandoned dry-stone terraces, the greppe, to grow Ansonica on Giglio's granite. Hand-harvested and made with native yeasts, the wines centre on the skin-contact Altura Ansonaco white, with a little red alongside.
Best for Terraced-vineyard Ansonaco (Ansonica) skin-contact island white wine
Ponza, Lazio, Italy
This historic family winery works terraced vineyards on the island of Ponza. It bottles native island wines such as Biancolella and the Fieno di Ponza reds and whites.
Best for Ponza island wines (Biancolella, Fieno di Ponza)
Assisi
This independent gourmet shop in central Assisi gathers typical Umbrian foods: Norcia cured meats, truffles, local cheeses and torta al testo. It also carries artisanal pasta, oils, honey and regional wines and craft beers.
Best for Typical Umbrian food and truffle products
Porto Azzurro, Elba Island
From about eight hectares on the terraced hillsides behind Porto Azzurro, this family winery makes roughly 30,000 bottles a year. Its range spans the Ansonica-based marine wine Nesos, the Tresse red blend and the Valerius white.
Best for Nesos marine wine, Ansonica whites, Elba red blends
Localita Setta, Framura
A small farm on the terraced cliffs above Framura growing vines within reach of the sea breeze and pressing them into Ligurian wine sold direct. Visitors can arrange tastings and a 'Wine Experience' by appointment overlooking the coast.
Best for Terraced-vineyard Ligurian wine
San Gimignano, Tuscany
The Cesani family farm at San Gimignano makes Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti, saffron and olive oil. An online shop and tastings extend the estate's reach.
Best for Vernaccia wine and San Gimignano DOP saffron
Pantelleria / Italy
Emanuela Bonomo's organic farm on Pantelleria grows and cures the island's capers, olives, grapes and oregano on volcanic terraces. Its shop sells capers, olive oil, passito, pates, jams and spice from Rekale, with delivery across Italy.
Best for Capers, passito wine, olive oil
Isola del Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago), Grosseto
The Rossi family farms Giglio's traditional terraced greppe, working the steep plots by hand. Their Ansonaco whites and other small-production island bottlings have become a benchmark of the Giglio wine revival.
Best for Ansonaco (Ansonica) and traditional Giglio island wines
Pinocchio d'Ancona, Ancona, Marche
This historic Ancona family winery works estate vineyards on the edge of the city. It produces Rosso Conero alongside Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi.
Best for Rosso Conero & Verdicchio wines, tastings
Schiopparello, Portoferraio, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Near Portoferraio, this farm makes DOC Elba wines including a passito, plus extra-virgin olive oil from four cultivars and pasta milled from ancient grain. The on-site shop keeps morning and afternoon hours, and the property adds five guest rooms and a seasonal restaurant.
Best for Farm wine, olive oil and ancient-grain pasta
Montacuto, Ancona, Marche
Set within the Conero regional park in the Ancona municipality, Moroder produces benchmark Rosso Conero DOC. The estate also runs a restaurant and guest rooms.
Best for Rosso Conero DOC wine, tastings, estate visits
Riomaggiore
Samuele Heydi Bonanini farms reclaimed terraces above Riomaggiore, working the vines by hand and hauling grapes on a monorail to make natural Cinque Terre wines and Sciacchetra. The small estate is known for low-intervention winemaking, including bottles aged under the sea.
Best for Natural terraced-vineyard wines
Porto Azzurro, Elba Island
Set between Porto Azzurro and Capoliveri, this family estate makes Elba DOC wines including Aleatico dell'Elba, along with its own olive oil, honey and preserves. It also runs an agriturismo and a Tuscan restaurant.
Best for Aleatico dell'Elba, estate olive oil, honey and preserves
Frascati, Lazio, Italy
Winemakers at Frascati since 1816, the De Sanctis family works organically, bottling Frascati Superiore DOCG under labels such as Abelos and Vino 496. Tastings and vineyard visits are offered at the family cellar.
Best for Organic Frascati Superiore DOCG
Localita Cegliolo, Cortona, Tuscany
A family estate founded in 1860 and now in its fifth generation under Benedetto Baracchi, farming around thirty hectares across four Cortona DOC sites. It bottles the Smeriglio Syrah and Sangiovese and traditional-method Brut sparklers, with enologist Riccardo Cotarella consulting.
Best for Cortona DOC Syrah and metodo classico
Monterosso al Mare
A family farm in a valley behind Monterosso growing vines and Monterosso lemons to make Cinque Terre DOC wine, Sciacchetra and its own limoncino. The estate runs tastings and sells wine, liqueur and organic farm products directly.
Best for Estate wine, Sciacchetra and limoncino
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
A Montepulciano wine estate producing Vino Nobile and Rosso di Montepulciano from organically farmed vineyards. Its wines can be bought through the online cart or tasted on a booked visit to the cellar.
Best for Organically farmed Vino Nobile and Rosso di Montepulciano, with booked cellar tastings
Riomaggiore (Groppo), Cinque Terre, Liguria
This historic growers' cooperative vinifies the fruit of terraced vineyards above Riomaggiore and the five villages. It produces the Cinque Terre DOC whites and the renowned sweet Sciacchetra, poured at cellar tastings.
Best for Cinque Terre DOC white wine and Sciacchetrà passito, plus cellar tastings
Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Liguria
This Riomaggiore shop specializes in Cinque Terre Sciacchetra alongside local Ligurian specialties. It stocks the region's characteristic food and wine products.
Best for Sciacchetrà and Cinque Terre local food/wine products
Salina, Aeolian Islands
Cantine Colosi is a family winery on Salina producing Salina IGT reds and whites along with the prized Malvasia delle Lipari. Its wines come from vineyards on the island and rank among the leading names in Aeolian wine.
Best for Salina wines and Malvasia delle Lipari
Montepulciano / Italy
Maria Caterina Dei's Montepulciano winery on Via di Martiena has produced Vino Nobile under the family name since 1985, with its flagship 'Bossona' Riserva and a range of Tuscan reds, whites and Vin Santo. Visitors can shop the wines online or in person and stay for tastings, a restaurant and a vineyard resort.
Best for "Bossona" Riserva Vino Nobile, Vin Santo, and a vineyard resort since 1985
Furore, Amalfi Coast
Andrea Ferraioli and Marisa Cuomo have run this cliffside estate above the Furore fjord since 1980, working terraced plots of Falanghina, Biancolella, Ripoli, Piedirosso and Aglianico at roughly 500 meters above the sea. The cellar is carved into the dolomite rock of the village, and the flagship Fiorduva white is pressed from grapes hand-carried down near-vertical vineyards each autumn.
Best for Costa d'Amalfi DOC white and red wines, including Fiorduva
Locorotondo, Puglia
This family-run Puglia winery in the Valle d'Itria centres on Locorotondo DOC whites such as Verdeca and Minutolo. Reds, roses and sparkling wines round out the cellar, which is open for visits.
Best for Locorotondo DOC white wine and Valle d'Itria varietals
Fonterutoli
The Mazzei family has grown grapes and bottled wine at the hamlet of Fonterutoli, just south of Castellina, since 1435. A gravity-flow cellar dug into the hillside produces Sangiovese-based Chianti Classico, single-vineyard Gran Selezione labels such as Castello di Fonterutoli, and estate extra virgin olive oil.
Best for Chianti Classico and Gran Selezione wines
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A castle estate above Greve producing Chianti Classico and Maremma wines plus extra virgin olive oil, its cellar built on Renaissance foundations. Bottles sell through an online shop, and the property runs tastings, a Tuscan restaurant, and rooms.
Best for Chianti Classico from a historic castle cellar
Ischia (town)
Cenatiempo has produced Ischia DOC wines since 1945, when Francesco Cenatiempo and his brothers began selling wine from a small cellar near the island's harbor. The estate now bottles Biancolella, Forastera, and Per' 'e Palummo alongside blends such as Kalimera and Lefkos, all grown on Ischia's volcanic soil.
Best for Ischia DOC Biancolella and Per' 'e Palummo
Vernazza
Cheo is a small family-run winery on the terraced slopes above Vernazza, producing Cinque Terre DOC white and the local Sciacchetra passito from grapes grown on hand-worked dry-stone terraces. The estate farms its steep coastal parcels in the labour-intensive tradition of the Cinque Terre.
Best for Small-production Cinque Terre DOC white and Sciacchetra
Villanova (Piazza San Giuseppe)
Carlo Soru's bottega on Piazza San Giuseppe stocks wines from small Sardinian wineries alongside pecorino, cured meats, honey, fresh pasta and traditional breads, and doubles as a wine bar for tastings. It assembles personalized gift boxes and ships island products across Italy.
Best for Sardinian wine and food tastings
Piana di Ghirlanda, Pantelleria (TP)
At Piana di Ghirlanda on Pantelleria, this winery works the island's Zibibbo grape. Its wines include the sweet Passito di Pantelleria.
Best for Passito di Pantelleria and Zibibbo wines
Forio
D'Ambra has grown Biancolella and Forastera on Ischia's volcanic slopes since 1888, moving from bulk wine trading under founder Don Ciccio to estate-bottled DOC wines. The fourth generation of the family now runs the Forio winery, including the single-vineyard Frassitelli Biancolella grown on hand-cut terraces.
Best for Biancolella and volcanic-terroir Ischia wines
Montepulciano / Italy
A historic Montepulciano cellar on Via Ricci producing Vino Nobile, Rosso di Montepulciano and Tuscan IGT wines beneath the town's old palaces. Wines are sold directly and tastings run through its cathedral-like underground galleries.
Best for Vino Nobile tastings in underground Montepulciano galleries
Contrada Khamma, Pantelleria, Italy
This Marsala-based Sicilian producer keeps an estate on Pantelleria, where it makes its Zibibbo wines, among them the Ben Rye Passito di Pantelleria. The cellar and vineyards sit at Khamma and are open for visits.
Best for Ben Rye Passito di Pantelleria (Zibibbo)
Montepulciano / Italy
The Jacorossi family has made Vino Nobile di Montepulciano since 1972, ageing it in a sixteenth-century cellar beneath the Palazzo Tarugi and Palazzo Sinatti in the historic centre. Its wines, grappa, Vin Santo and olive oil are sold at the shop on Via Talosa and through the online store.
Best for Vino Nobile, grappa, Vin Santo and olive oil
Tenuta delle Ripalte, Capoliveri, Isola d'Elba, Italy
On a promontory at Elba's south-eastern tip, this fifteen-hectare estate grows Aleatico, Vermentino and Alicante, with Aleatico treated as the emblem of Elban winemaking. The Ripalte cellar offers tastings and estate wines within the wider Tenuta delle Ripalte.
Best for Coastal Aleatico and vineyard visits
Castellina in Chianti
An old working farm in the hills of Castellina, La Castellina makes Chianti Classico and Riserva from its own vineyards alongside cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. The estate sells its wine and oil direct and rents rooms among the vines for visitors who want to stay on the land.
Best for Estate Chianti Classico and olive oil
Panzano in Chianti (Greve in Chianti), Tuscany
A Panzano estate in the Conca d'Oro valley making Sangiovese wines including Flaccianello della Pieve and Vin Santo, plus DOP extra virgin olive oil pressed the day of harvest. Grapes are hand-harvested from the estate's own vineyards.
Best for Sangiovese wines and estate olive oil
Frascati, Lazio, Italy
Described as the last wood-fired oven in Frascati, this bakery on Piazza Bambocci has baked bread, pizza and pastries over chestnut wood since 1920. Wine doughnuts, panettone and jam tarts come from the same centuries-old premises.
Best for Wood-fired bread and pizza
Gorgona Island, Tuscan Archipelago, Livorno
Grown on the smallest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, which is also Italy's only remaining island penitentiary, this white comes from a two-hectare vineyard. Since 2012 the Frescobaldi wine house has trained inmates in viticulture and winemaking here, vinifying a Vermentino-Ansonica white and, later, a terracotta-aged Gorgona Rosso on the island.
Best for Island-grown Gorgona white wine from the prison-rehabilitation vineyard
Sant'Egidio / Abruzzo / Online
Abruzzo knitwear factory since 1952 at the foot of its namesake mountain — fine-gauge polos and knits. Its cashmere line includes exceptional knitted polos and fine-gauge sweaters.
Best for Fine merino polos and Italian knitwear.
Salina, Aeolian Islands, Sicily
This family estate on Salina makes Malvasia delle Lipari and other Aeolian wines, along with distillates and salt-cured Salina capers. It also keeps a foothold on neighboring Vulcano.
Best for Malvasia delle Lipari wine and Salina capers
Perugia / Italy
La Bottega del Vino, run by Fabrizio Bastianelli, is a wine shop with two Perugia locations selling bulk "vino sfuso" alongside bottled wines, grappa, and cold-pressed olive oil. Customers can fill their own containers or buy bottled selections in-store, with home delivery available.
Best for Wine shop, Bulk Wine, Bottled Wine, Olive Oil
San Gimignano, Tuscany
This organic, family-run estate on the hills of San Gimignano produces Vernaccia di San Gimignano and other Tuscan wines, plus saffron and olive oil. Cellar tastings bring visitors to the vineyard.
Best for Vernaccia di San Gimignano and organic estate wine tasting
Mantova / Italy
Le Tamerici, based near Mantua, handcrafts mostarda mantovana and fruit-and-vegetable preserves in small jars without added thickeners or preservatives. The range runs from pear and quince mostarda to balsamic-vinegar compotes and wine gelatins, sold through the company's online shop and shown at fairs like Taste Firenze.
Best for Mostarda mantovana, fruit preserves, jams & gelatins
Manarola
This Manarola shop on Via Birolli gathers Cinque Terre products under one roof, from local wine and Italian ceramics to handmade jewelry, prints, clothing and regional foods. Run by Il Porticciolo SRL and open every day, it ships worldwide and takes special orders by request.
Best for Local-wine, handmade-ceramics, jewelry, art-prints, souvenirs, local-food
Contrada Bukkuram, Pantelleria
This artisan Marsala winery farms the Bukkuram vineyards on Pantelleria, producing its Passito di Pantelleria. Wine-tourism tours are offered on the island.
Best for Bukkuram Passito di Pantelleria
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A small family winery started by the Sieni family in the 1960s on vineyard land beside the medieval hamlet of Montefioralle. It makes fewer than 15,000 bottles of organically certified Chianti Classico a year, with a modest production of extra virgin olive oil.
Best for Small-batch organic Chianti Classico
Bergamo province
Ol Formager has sold Bergamo's mountain cheeses for more than sixty years, specializing in the DOP varieties of the local Cheese Valley such as Taleggio and Formai de Mut. The family shop also stocks cured meats, wines, and other typical products of the Bergamasque valleys.
Best for Bergamo DOP mountain cheeses
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
A winery on the Valiano hill between Montepulciano and Cortona, formerly Villa di Valiano, crafting nine wines from native Tuscan grapes including Vino Nobile DOCG and Terrarossa. Bottles are sold through its online shop and its cellar hosts tastings, tours and events.
Best for Winery, Vino-Nobile, Tuscan-wine
Menfi / Sambuca di Sicilia
Sicily's wine revolution — six estates, indigenous grapes, and the family that transformed Sicilian wine from bulk to boutique.
Best for Six estates, indigenous grapes, wine revolution, boutique.
Castellina in Chianti
Certified organic since 2012, this estate hand-tends its vines and hand-selects fruit for a Sangiovese-led range of Chianti Classico. Bottles are sold through the estate's own online shop alongside its other Tuscan wines.
Best for Organic Chianti Classico
Le Macìe
Film producer Italo Zingarelli bought the Le Macìe estate in 1973 and turned it into a Sangiovese-focused winery now run by the third generation of his family. Spread across roughly 500 hectares of Tuscan land, it produces Chianti Classico and Riserva wines, Maremma reds, and estate olive oil, with a cellar and relais open for tastings.
Best for Chianti Classico wines and cellar tastings
San Cassiano, Alta Badia
Rosa Alpina is an alpine hotel in San Cassiano that long housed the three-Michelin-star restaurant St. Hubertus. It anchors a dining and wine destination in the heart of Alta Badia.
Best for Fine alpine dining and a luxury Dolomites stay
Pantelleria / Italy / Online
Zibibbo growers on Pantelleria for six generations, the Murana family has made wine since founding its cellar in 1975 across roughly seventeen hectares of centuries-old vines. Its passiti and dry whites, named for the island's districts, are sold through the estate's online shop.
Best for Passito, zibibbo wine, winery
Brescia
STPN gathers a butcher, delicatessen, wine cellar and kitchen under one roof in Brescia, selling cured meats, cheeses and regional wines. The counter also prepares ready dishes and salumi platters drawn from its own gastronomia.
Best for Cured meats, cheeses and regional wines
Manzano, Cortona, Tuscany
Founded in 1967 in the Manzano hamlet, this estate helped establish fine wine in Cortona and farms around thirty hectares certified organic since 2016. Its flagship Cortona Syrah and Viognier are made alongside the on-site Creta Osteria and Borgo Syrah resort.
Best for Cortona Syrah and Viognier
Lipari, Aeolian Islands (Isole Eolie), Sicily
This organic winery farms the volcanic slopes of Lipari, a practice known as heroic viticulture. It makes the sweet Malvasia delle Lipari alongside terroir wines named for the island's stone, Bianco Pomice and Nero Ossidiana.
Best for Malvasia delle Lipari (sweet dessert wine) and Aeolian volcanic wines
Tramonti / Italy
Tenuta San Francesco farms century-old, pre-phylloxera vines on the terraced slopes of Tramonti, above the Amalfi Coast, producing DOC wines from indigenous grapes like Tintore and Piedirosso. Visitors can book wine tours, tastings, and cooking classes at the estate on Via Fieccia.
Best for Visitors can book wine tours, tastings
Puglia
This Vieste estate makes extra-virgin olive oil under its 'L'Olio del Sole' name and a range of white, red, rosé and sweet Gargano wines. Bottles and gift packs are sold through its own online shop.
Best for Gargano extra virgin olive oil and estate wines direct from Vieste
Levanto, Liguria, Italy
Terre di Levanto is a family wine estate on Via San Gottardo in Levanto, where Roberto Figaroli farms vineyards his grandparents first planted more than eighty years ago across the steep terraces of Le Ghiare, Brazzo, Costa di Farragiana and Punta Mesco along the coastal trail toward Monterosso. The estate bottles DOC Colline di Levanto wines Giaè and Rosso di Mare, both recognized in the Gambero Rosso and Bibenda guides, alongside its own extra virgin olive oil, and pours everything at its own wine bar, Fuoriporta, in town.
Best for Estate bottles DOC Colline di Levanto wines Giaè and Rosso di Mare
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
Founded in 1937, this Tuscan cooperative winery unites around 400 local growers to make Vino Nobile and other Montepulciano wines. Guests can tour its cellars of centuries-old barrels and buy the wines online or on a booked tasting.
Best for Winery, cooperative, Vino-Nobile, Sangiovese
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
An estate above Panzano farming vineyards over 500 metres to make Sangiovese-based wines including Anfiteatro and Bruno di Rocca. Small-lot vinification and hand-thinning of clusters guide a low-volume, terroir-focused approach.
Best for High-altitude Sangiovese wines
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A Chianti Classico estate in the hills of Greve whose vineyards and olive groves have been worked for more than six centuries. It produces DOCG wine and extra virgin olive oil and hosts guests across its farmhouses and villa.
Best for Chianti Classico and estate olive oil
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A wine shop, wine bar, and cellar on the main square of Greve pouring the Herita Marzotto estates' bottlings, including rare vintages and vertical selections. Cellar tours take in wooden casks and concrete and steel vessels, and suites occupy a restored 19th-century palazzo.
Best for Wine tasting and buying on Greve's square
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