Tenuta Fonzone
The Fonzone Caccese estate is located in Paternopoli, one of the seventeen municipalities of the Taurasi DOCG area, in the province of Avellino. The hill where the estate extends, just outside the town, is located in the “Campi Taurasini” sub-area, and is surrounded by the municipalities of Villamaina, Castelfranci and Gesualdo, whose castle was inhabited by a branch of the Caccese family, from 1856 to 1980.
Lorenzo Fonzone Caccese, with his family, took over the hillside in 2005. The estate’s farming is to favor biodiversity in the vineyard as much as possible and to improve the soil structure. Furthermore, given the proximity to Vesuvius as the crow flies, the first two layers of the soil have volcanic dust, a deposit of the eruptions that took place over the centuries.
