Mario Maccario was one of the historic vignerons of the area, producer of great wines and rightly included in the select group of genuinely international producers found here. The winery is located in San Biagio della Cima, a small village in the province of Imperia, full of narrow streets and stairways. Today it is run by Mario's daughter Giovanna and her husband Goetz Dringenberg, and its production is divided into four different “crus” (Braë, Luvàira, Posaù and Curli), all planted with Rossese, a grape variety that expresses itself in extremely different ways depending on the terroir from which it comes and whose characteristics it keeps intact.
The vines are cultivated as naturally as possible, without the use of synthetic products, using a Provençal alberello training system and keeping the foliage at its maximum extent so that the bunches are never completely exposed to the sun. In the cellar, temperature-controlled steel is used both during fermentation, to extract as much as possible and keep the aromas of the grapes intact, and during storage, while ageing takes place in glass.
The end result is a portfolio of authentic, distinctive and characterful wines that faithfully express a highly suitable terroir that is unique in the world.
