Azienda Agricola Gennaro Papa
Proud member of VIFI, Federacione Vignaioli Italiana Independenti, committed to low impact conventional wine production
la rosa selections
Currently Offering:
Memoriae | Vini Bianco from a 50/50 blend of Falanghina and Moscato di Terracina
Opimiano | Vini Rosso from 40% Primitivo 40% Barbera and 20% Piedirosso
Conclave | Vini Rosso from 100% Primitivo aged 24 months in stainless steel
Campantuono | Riserva Vini Rosso from 100 year old Primitivo vines aged 30 months in steel and oak
about Azienda Agricola Gennaro Papa
— Company —
Our company has its roots in the first decades of 1900. On June 24, 1933, my grandparents saw their skills and passion rewarded by receiving the first public recognition. Until 1960, production had more significance than distribution or economic value. From 1990, the quality of the wine was the focus, in the belief that the Falerno wine could return to having the celebrity status it once had. Currently we work with external collaboration of the enologist Maurilio Chioccia in our 6 hectares of historical vineyards, keeping the original structure in full respect of history.
— history —
The current territory of the municipality of Falciano del Massico (CE), "Ager Falernus" in Roman times (4th century BC / IV century AD), gave its name to the first famous wine of history: the Falerno. It was the Roman historian T. Livio, at the end of the Republican age, who delimited the territory - having a triangular shape - with the base of the course of the Savone river and the summit of the Monte Massico. Around 340 BCE, the Romans, with the "Falerina tribe", resumed the Magno-Greek, Etruscan and Autochthonous Bells wine-making traditions, developing a renowned wine-making district, subdivided by zonation, altitude and variety of soils. There were initially three types of Falerno wine, including the prized "Faustianum vinum".
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and during the Middle Ages, the Falerno was produced under other names, thus losing its ancient prestige, traffic decreased, with production limited to the sites on the terraced slopes of the Massico. We find a return to notoriety in the full Renaissance (16th century), when under the name of Fistignano, it was praised by Pope Paul III Farnese. At the end of the nineteenth century, the phylloxera devastated the vineyards, but thanks to the efforts of farmers and landowning landowners in the area, recovery began at the beginning of the 1900s and continued up to the present day. Greater attention was devoted to an ancient vine, the "Primarulo" (Primitivo) already mentioned in the essay by L. Menna of 1848 (before the arrival of the phylloxera). On the basis of this past and after alternating fortunes, in 1989 comes the recognition to D: O.C. , confirming a more specific enhancement.
