List of products by brand CASALE DEL GIGLIO

For Antonio Santarelli, Casale del Giglio was the family estate where he spent his weekends as a child and then attempted his first moped rides. But when, at the age of twenty-five, he began to collaborate in the company with his father Dino, he felt that those reclaimed lands of the Agro Pontino were a virgin area on which to attempt everything New possible. The absence of an oenological past thus became the determining stimulus towards the maximum degree of innovative freedom. He called upon ampelographers and university researchers and in 1985, with his father Dino, he gave life to a project that planted almost 60 different experimental vines on his land. A complex and risky adventure, never attempted with this scientific approach, of which the company's oenologist Paolo Tiefenthaler became the interpreter. An adventure that repays the boldness with the first important results on the red grapes Syrah and Petit Verdot and white ones like Sauvignon, Viognier and Petit Manseng, which give life to different labels from single varietal or blended, always with an interesting quality-price ratio.»

Casale del Giglio was founded in 1967 by Dr. Berardino Santarelli, originally from Amatrice, and is located in the Agro Pontino in the locality of Le Ferriere, Municipality of Aprilia, in the province of Latina, about 50 km south of Rome. This territory, compared to other areas of Lazio and other regions of Italy, represented an environment to be explored from a wine-growing point of view. For this reason, in 1985 the research and development project "Casale del Giglio" was created, authorized by the Department of Agriculture of the Lazio Region. Still collaborating on this initiative are Prof. Attilio Scienza, from the Institute of Tree Cultivation of the University of Milan, Prof. Angelo Costacurta, from the Experimental Institute for Viticulture of Conegliano (Treviso) and Prof. Fulvio Mattivi of the Edmund Mach Foundation Research and Innovation Center of the Provincial Agricultural Institute of San Michele all'Adige (Trento), where the company's oenologist, Paolo Tiefenthaler, comes from.

The viticultural cultivation models that inspired this research are those practiced in Bordeaux, Australia and California, which are territories exposed to the influence of the coast, exactly like the Agro Pontino, which benefits from the influence of the Tyrrhenian Sea. According to the philosophy of Casale del Giglio, "the future development of Italian viticulture does not only lie in the consolidation of the image of areas with a great tradition, but also in achieving, through appropriate viticultural and oenological choices, high-level production, characterized by the right quality-price ratio, in territories that are still little known from the point of view of their viticultural and oenological qualitative potential". The results of this research have been validated by the European Community with the authorization to cultivate in the province of Latina, starting from 1990, new recommended vines such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Sauvignon and, subsequently, others. To date, Casale del Giglio has converted all of its 180 hectares of vineyards to row vines and introduced new varieties characterized by a high degree of qualitative interaction with the Territory. The current production of the Casale del Giglio company offers a range of 23 products (white, rosé and red, a Late Harvest, three grappas and an extra virgin olive oil).