Fontanavecchia

The Fontanavecchia winery is now a historic reality with a long tradition, belonging to the Sannio wine scene, which produces excellent wines recognized and awarded also with The Wine Hunter Awards.

Fontanavecchia: history, tradition and passion

of a family

The historic Fontanavecchia cellars: a temple dedicated to wine, to human hard work, to the enchantment of the slow and delicate rites that have woven the life of a family of winemakers for generations. Built by the founder of the Rillo family, starting in the 19th century and then renovated and enlarged over time, they now represent a prominent wine reality in the Campania region.

The Fontanavecchia company is developed in the homonymous district of Torrecuso in the province of Benevento on an area of 20 hectares, under the careful management of Libero Rillo accompanied by the experience of his father Orazio and his brother Giuseppe.

The ability of this family, from the beginning, to carry out the work in their own vineyards, to squeeze the exceptional grapes produced and bottle the precious wine under their own brand, make the Fontanavecchia company one of the most important and ancient wineries in the whole of Sannio.

Tradition, pride in Campania and the continuous striving to achieve new and confirmed excellence represent the distinctive traits of the Rillo family in each of the wines produced. Results that over the decades have transformed Falanghina and Aglianico Fontanavecchia into iconic labels, forerunners of a great new story in

the Taburno wine production scene.

Fontanavecchia wines: love

and Samnite tradition

All the wines produced by the Fontanavecchia company are an expression of the Samnite winemaking tradition. They have always told a story of patient work, carried out to achieve a single essential objective: excellent quality. For this reason, all the different production phases are carried out with passion and scrupulousness, with the utmost respect for the vineyards, the wine and the people: from activities in the vineyard to vinification, up to &' bottling. This makes it possible to promote and lead to excellence the identity and peculiarities that each grape variety knows how to express.
The Fontanavecchia winery is located in the ancient medieval village of Torrecuso, a land where vines and olive trees shape the magical and uncontaminated landscape, on the slopes of Mount Taburno.

In the enchanting district of Fontanavecchia, next to the extensive vineyards of Aglianico and Falanghina, different types of fine grapes are cultivated. In these lands, the quality of the wines originates first of all in the vineyard, seeking solutions and methods of cultivation, harvest and vinification that are able to best respect the soil, the environment and tradition.
In the cellar, the philosophy is not very different, so in the name of the oldest and most deep-rooted local traditions, the grapes are processed and interpreted keeping in mind what the main objective is, aimed at exalting and valuing what the season and the territory have been able to express in the fruit.

This meticulous processing allows us to have excellent wines capable of involving the nose with complex olfactory bouquets, and able to conquer the palate thanks to an important and valuable gustatory

tension.