The Monserrato company was born in 1973 from an intuition of Cavalier Francesco Zecchina, a Neapolitan building builder, passionate about wines, who a few years earlier decided to follow his passion on the hills around Benevento, at the foot of Monte Serrato, arranging a ruin dating back to 1962 Irpinia earthquake. With the help of a young friend and farmer he began by planting tobacco and olive trees, halfway up the hill, on an area of about 60 hectares fed by spring water. At the end of the 1980s, production was basically tobacco, olives and grapes. Oil and wine were produced mainly for family use and given to friends and relatives, much appreciated gifts that were then requested with grateful solicitude.
After a period of transition, the management of the company is now entrusted to Paola, Francesco’s daughter, and her son Lucio. In recent years, a corporate restructuring process has been initiated aimed at introducing new native vines, expanding the olive-growing area and replacing tobacco production with various arable crops from organic cultivation, a sincere expression of the territory. Currently, three oil labels and a line of six wines are produced from the company’s olive groves and vineyards.
WINES
BARBERA
DEL SANNIO
MONSERRATO 1973
This is the Samnite grape that occupies a special place in our production. Our Barbera (Camaiola) best supports the conviviality of the table and is capable of letting itself be drunk with great pleasure even on its own. The grapes come from a specific and suitable parcel of our estate in Benevento, a few steps from Pietrelcina. Like the whole company, the vineyard is managed with low environmental impact agronomic techniques.
FALANGHINA
MONSERRATO 1973
Falanghina is the main vine of Samnite viticulture capable of interpreting this territory with innumerable nuances, expressing very different characters from area to area. This wine is the result of a careful business zoning that has allowed us to identify the parcels best suited to express the most elegant side of this extraordinary vine and to vinify them in blending.
RINTOCCO
MONSERRATO 1973
Aglianico was one of the first vines to be planted on our estate back in 1998, taking advantage of a mass selection coming from the whole Samnite viticultural area. Even the Camaiola (Barbera del Sannio), planted in recent years in Monserrato, is the result of a mass selection deriving from the best vineyards in the area. We decided to assemble them in this wine to embellish the austere character of Aglianico with the gracefulness, aromas and softness of Camaiola.
LEVATA
MONSERRATO 1973
Our classic interpretation of Falanghina that translates into wine all the warmth of the best company exposures while maintaining its typical freshness and the frank and true fruity outfit intact.
Aglianico
MONSERRATO 1973
From one of the oldest parcels of the vineyard at the entrance of our company, we hand-select the best Aglianico grapes of each vintage and only in the best we produce this wine in purity that we put on the market two years after the harvest.
fiano
MONSERRATO 1973
Over the years, one of the highest parcels in Monserrato has expressed a very high quality through the grapes of this vine. Therefore every year the very small quantity of Fiano produced on the farm is vinified in purity to tell this further nuance of our microcosm.
MAGNUM BARBERA
DEL SANNIO
MONSERRATO 1973
This is the Samnite grape that occupies a special place in our production. Our Barbera (Camaiola) best supports the conviviality of the table and is capable of letting itself be drunk with great pleasure even on its own. The grapes come from a specific and suitable parcel of our estate in Benevento, a few steps from Pietrelcina. Like the whole company, the vineyard is managed with low environmental impact agronomic techniques.
MAGNUM fiano
MONSERRATO 1973
Over the years, one of the highest parcels in Monserrato has expressed a very high quality through the grapes of this vine. Therefore every year the very small quantity of Fiano produced on the farm is vinified in purity to tell this further nuance of our microcosm.
BARBERA
DEL SANNIO
MONSERRATO 1973
This is the Samnite grape that occupies a special place in our production. Our Barbera (Camaiola) best supports the conviviality of the table and is able to let itself be drunk with great pleasure even on its own. & Nbsp; The grapes come from a specific and suitable particle of our estate in Benevento a few steps from Pietrelcina. Like the whole company, the vineyard is managed with low environmental impact agronomic techniques.
FALANGHINA
MONSERRATO 1973
Falanghina is the main vine of Samnite viticulture capable of interpreting this territory with innumerable nuances, expressing very different characters from area to area. This wine is the result of a careful business zoning that has allowed us to identify the parcels best suited to express the most elegant side of this extraordinary vine and to vinify them in blending.
LEVATA
MONSERRATO 1973
Our classic interpretation of Falanghina that translates into wine all the warmth of the best company exposures while maintaining its typical freshness and the frank and true fruity outfit intact.
RINTOCCO
MONSERRATO 1973
Aglianico was one of the first vines to be planted on our estate back in 1998, taking advantage of a mass selection coming from the whole Samnite viticultural area. Even the Camaiola (Barbera del Sannio), planted in recent years in Monserrato, is the result of a mass selection deriving from the best vineyards in the area. We decided to assemble them in this wine to embellish the austere character of Aglianico with the gracefulness, aromas and softness of Camaiola.
Aglianico
MONSERRATO 1973
From one of the oldest parcels of the vineyard at the entrance of our company, we hand-select the best Aglianico grapes of each vintage and only in the best we produce this wine in purity that we put on the market two years after the harvest.
fiano
MONSERRATO 1973
Over the years, one of the highest parcels in Monserrato has expressed a very high quality through the grapes of this vine. Therefore every year the very small quantity of Fiano produced on the farm is vinified in purity to tell this further nuance of our microcosm.
MAGNUM BARBERA
DEL SANNIO
MONSERRATO 1973
This is the Samnite grape that occupies a special place in our production. Our Barbera (Camaiola) best supports the conviviality of the table and is able to let itself be drunk with great pleasure even on its own. & Nbsp; The grapes come from a specific and suitable particle of our estate in Benevento a few steps from Pietrelcina. Like the whole company, the vineyard is managed with low environmental impact agronomic techniques.
MAGNUM fiano
MONSERRATO 1973
Over the years, one of the highest parcels in Monserrato has expressed a very high quality through the grapes of this vine. Therefore every year the very small quantity of Fiano produced on the farm is vinified in purity to tell this further nuance of our microcosm.
OILS
MANALONGA
MONSERRATO 1973
Manalonga is the spirit of the wells that if you look out to look at the bottom it grabs you and pulls you down.
Company cru
Medium fruity and gentle bitter
The soil texture of the Manalonga plot is fine, very loose, with a prevalence of silt and spreading outcrops and crushed stone. There are 10 autochthonous varieties of Sannio and another 20 allochthonous, with a prevalence of Feminella and Ortolana.
ORTICE
MONSERRATO 1973
Ortice is the lord of the table: the perfect combination of spicy and bitter that does not fear superstitions.
Monocultivar Ortice
The soil of the Ortice plot is very fine. Before the plant dating back to the early 90s, important refurbishment works were carried out with the removal of large volumes of rock. It is an onovarietal olive grove of Ortice, a symbolic variety of olive growing in the Sannio area.
SATANASSO
MONSERRATO 1973
Satanassus commands that you dance, you can eat, and that everyone has fun and enjoyment.
Company cru
Spicy, lively and lightly fruity
The soil of the Satanasso plot is moderately fine, clayey and slightly compact. Outcrop rocks are rarely found. This plot is characterized by the presence of different varieties with a prevalence of Racioppella and Pampagliosa.
MANALONGA
MONSERRATO 1973
Manalonga is the spirit of the wells that if you look out to look at the bottom it grabs you and pulls you down.
Company cru
Medium fruity and gentle bitter
The soil texture of the Manalonga plot is fine, very loose, with a prevalence of silt and spreading outcrops and crushed stone. There are 10 autochthonous varieties of Sannio and another 20 allochthonous, with a prevalence of Feminella and Ortolana.
ORTICE
MONSERRATO 1973
Ortice is the lord of the table: the perfect combination of spicy and bitter that does not fear superstitions.
Monocultivar Ortice
The soil of the Ortice plot is very fine. Before the plant dating back to the early 90s, important refurbishment works were carried out with the removal of large volumes of rock. It is an onovarietal olive grove of Ortice, a symbolic variety of olive growing in the Sannio area.
SATANASSO
MONSERRATO 1973
Satanassus commands that you dance, you can eat, and that everyone has fun and enjoyment.
Company cru
Spicy, lively and lightly fruity
The soil of the Satanasso plot is moderately fine, clayey and slightly compact. Outcrop rocks are rarely found. This plot is characterized by the presence of different varieties with a prevalence of Racioppella and Pampagliosa.
AWARDS