This is an extraordinary story. Twenty years ago Uncle Giuseppe declared that his 8-year-old great-niece Elisabetta would inherit the property he had painstakingly acquired since his return from years as a POW in Australia. Elisabetta took the call seriously, and she has devoted herself ever since to the stewardship of the family’s lands – and the development of a serious winery.

Betty has been running the show since she was in her teens. Some of her vineyards are made up of 90+ year old vines, while she has put together other parcels of land with vines that are "merely" 40 or so years old, and others that are quite new.

She is out to make the best Aglianico possible in her prime part of the Vùlture appellation. We’re thrilled to offer her first export vintage, two crus that speak eloquently of the hard beauty of the land and of her determination to live up to the honor and responsibility she was given. We tasted these wines, looked at one another and agreed: "This could be the start of something big."