"Il Poggio" is located on a hill at around 300 meters slm, on the base of the Taburno Mountain, absorbed in a green and luxuriant country of vineyards exposed southeast that is such a sight…that it takes your breath away…

The vineyards are raised back to the sun rays, with 2.500 grapevines for each hectare and with an average age of 15 years, installed in cretaceous and clayey soil, where the production of grapes is of 100 q/ha.
 

VINIFICATION:
The harvest of the grapes is rigorously hand picked, placing them in crates which are of the average weight of 20 kilos, and within 2/3 hours of the picking the grapes are separated from the stalks and ready to be pressed. The grapes are processed with oenological equipment which is respecting with passion that our company has for tradition. The fermentation takes place and the temperature is electronically checked. The pressing occurs with a soft press to 1 atm.

THE PROJECT OF QUALITY GLOBAL DU PONT
The agricultural company "Il Poggio" of Carmine Fusco is very faithful to the Global Project of Quality Du Pont for the guarantee of quality and healthiness of the grapes and the wines, to which we are associated, the integrated driven struggle with the atmospheric monitoring of the conditions.

Our company has been selected among the first one hundred companies in Italy with the necessary requisite of quality to be able to access the P.Q.G. It voluntarily adopts an self regulation in the use of the anti parasitical products and in the application of the techniques, and struggle to apply them, in the full respect of the environment, to produce wines in total absence of chemical residues.

The "Project Quality' Global" DuPont began in 1993; its objective is to safeguard the production of the viticulture in the respect of the ecosystems and the health of the operator, the consumer and the producers of the wines that are directed to the quality of the final product.