Wines from the Piceno hills, born of stubborn dedication.
Native Adriatic wines, sculpted by sunlight, sea salt, and the patience of those who know how to wait.
A young couple, a single grape, one land.
Eleonora Rossi and Marco Casolanetti — a young couple of growers in love with the Montepulciano grape, with the Piceno, their land, and with the beauty of wine: with what it can give to those who drink it, provided they respect and know it.
"They are not interested in technically perfect wines orphaned of the producer’s personality. The real added value remains the human factor."— Eleonora Rossi & Marco Casolanetti
The human factor: with all its weight of considered passion, of research, of dedication. From here come Kurni and Kupra — two wines, nothing more, made with the discipline of decades of careful work in the vineyard and the cellar.
The hills of Piceno, facing the Adriatic.
The vineyards lie in the Piceno hills, a few kilometres from the Adriatic, facing south-east. The cellar is small; the work is handwork — careful pruning, low yields, long fermentations. Nothing automated, nothing hurried.
- Region
- Piceno, Marche
- Exposure
- South-east, facing the Adriatic
- Soil
- Calcareous clay
- Practice
- Hand-tended, low yields
Two wines. Nothing else.
Grown, fermented, and aged with the same conviction — that the wine’s character not be polished away.
Kurni
100% Montepulciano · Marche IGT
A Montepulciano like no other.
Thick, dense, almost insolent in its elegance. Kurni is the wine Eleonora Rossi and Marco Casolanetti dreamed of when they left the city for the hills of Piceno: a Montepulciano farmed the way it was a century ago, harvested late, fermented unhurriedly, and aged in wood for nearly two years.
The fruit comes from ungrafted vineyards over forty years old, facing south-east toward the Adriatic, on calcareous-clay soils that give the wine the salt of the sea and the minerality of stone. Harvest is entirely by hand, in multiple passes, cluster by cluster.
Kurni 2008 collected, in a single year, Gambero Rosso’s Tre Bicchieri, DueMillavini’s 5 Grappoli, L’Espresso’s “Vino dell’Eccellenza”, and the Go Wine “Autoctono si nasce” prize. For wine writers it remains one of the few Italian reds that speaks to the heart before the palate.
- Exposure
- South-east, facing the Adriatic
- Soil
- Calcareous clay, stony
- Formats
- 750 ml · 1,5 L (Magnum) · 3 L (Jeroboam) · 6 L (Imperial)
Kupra
100% Bordo (Grenache) · Marche IGT
A Grenache with the delicacy of the greatest reds.
Kupra comes from an old vineyard facing the sea, at four hundred metres of altitude. Fermentation takes place in a raw concrete egg — the same vessel the old farmers used — and the wine then rests for thirty months in first- and second-use barriques. The first commercial vintage was 2006; trials go back to 2000.
Three senses: a Grenache unlike most you will meet, with the delicacy only the very greatest reds possess. Aromas of small red fruits, liquorice, Indian spice — complex and delicate, in a steady oscillation. A silky, intriguing, velvety finish.
- Exposure
- Facing the sea
- Aging
- Raw concrete egg, 30 months in barrique
- Formats
- 750 ml · 1,5 L (Magnum)
Tre Gamberi at the agriturismo.
For Gambero Rosso’s 15 best trattorias of the 2007 Restaurants of Italy guide, the publication produced the "Tre Gamberi" DVD — a prestigious work with a beautiful feature on our agriturismo.
Hospitality is slow, by appointment; the kitchen is the home kitchen; the wine is ours. For bookings or direct information, please write to us.
What has been written.
- The top award in Gambero Rosso’s 2011 Italian Wine Guide, given to Kurni 2008.
- AIS DueMillavini’s top excellence award to Kurni 2008.
- Inducted into L’Espresso’s 2011 "I Vini d’Italia" guide.
- Certificate of excellence for Kurni Rosso Marche 2008.
- Touring Club Italiano’s recognition for Kurni 2008.
- Recognition for the defense and valorization of the Montepulciano grape on the Piceno terroir.
Where we are, how to write, how to find us.
The estate is in Cupra Marittima, in the Piceno hills. The door opens by appointment only — we prefer to know who is visiting.
- Address
- Azienda Agricola Oasi degli Angeli
C.da S. Egidio, 50
63012 Cupra Marittima (AP) - Phone / Fax
- +39 0735 778569
- info@kurni.it
- Visits
- By appointment only