Claudio Cipressi

Claudio Cipressi's Winery is located in San Felice del Molise, in the province of Campobasso. A territory characterized by an agricultural landscape and a natural heritage of great wealth. Claudio Cipressi contributes with his activity and his passion to enhance this terroir and above all to make known the excellence it can donate. The estate covers a total area of 16 hectares, cultivated with typical local vines: tintilia del Molise, Montepulciano, Falanghina and Trebbiano.

If for Hemingway wine is one of the greatest signs of civilization, for Claudio Cipressi it is the distinctive sign to enhance the land where he was born, Molise.
Today, after recovering Tintilia, a PDO that amazes the glass, he is recovering two other native white grape varieties.
A region with a unique territorial morphology that preserves as a largely uncontaminated landscape numerous excellences and a lot of potential, even in the vineyard.

This is why Claudio, with the enthusiasm and conviction of new things, cultivates sixteen hectares of vineyards with native plants every day: eleven from Tintilia del Molise, three from Montepulciano, two from Falanghina and one from Trebbiano.

His method is strictly organic for cultivation in the vineyard, a respect for the environment that from this year on certifies the company as BIO:
The selection is almost maniacal for the grapes you choose to harvest, because nature presents them healthy and of excellent quality, with manual sorting bunch by bunch.
In the winery, Claudio adopts traditional, non-invasive processing processes, with great attention to the temperatures of the musts and the careful use of barrels to refine the wine without interfering with the fruit, altering a flavor that instead wants to respect the personality of the original grape variety in every sip.

A starting principle that is the prerequisite, according to Claudio, for improving the quality of its products on a daily basis, with the desire to genuinely make the wines of Molise, those of the winemaker Cipressi, compete with other great Italian wines.

It applies minimalist viticulture even in relation to the limited territorial extensions and almost entirely marked by altitude, with the exception of the short stretch of coast between Termoli and Campomarino and its surroundings. And this means an almost extreme, difficult and demanding viticulture, which prefers the cultivation of varieties borrowed from neighboring regions: Montepulciano and Trebbiano from Abruzzo, Falanghina and Aglianico from Campania and Nero di Troia from Puglia.

In this context, however, there is no shortage of equipped and cutting-edge companies such as that of Claudio Cipressi Vignaiolo from San Felice del Molise, followed by the oenologist Vincenzo Mercurio, dedicated above all to the dissemination and knowledge across the border of the only autarchic Molise grape