Located in the Gran Sasso National Park and Monti della Laga, the Lammidia winery is located in old converted farmhouses in the hills 600 meters above the Civitella Casanova... Read More
Located in the Gran Sasso National Park and Monti della Laga, the Lammidia winery is located in old converted farmhouses in the hills 600 meters above the Civitella Casanova and Villa Celiera. David and Marco work with Montepulciano, Trebbiano, Pinot Noir and Barbera, as well as a few other known and unknown varieties grown organically and biodynamically that they purchase from close friend near their winery They work side by side with them, allowing them to understand the fruit that heads into their cellar.
Their cellar has never seen any modern chemicals and everything is done by hand. This is very laborious and they but the pair have surrounded themselves with a community of friends and family that believe in what they are doing agd are always there to lend a hand for the price of a lunch, fantastic wines and good times .
The wines are fermented and concreted and amphora that they built themselves. They also use a little bit of steel and fiberglass as well. The whites like the reds are skin macerated. In their ten years of working together, they’ve produced about 60 labels, all imprinted with a picture of a hand and their motto: “uva e basta!” (grapes and that’s it). No technology, no chemicals, no fancy tricks; just grapes and a few hands getting dirty in the soil.
The resulting wines are vibrant and living tributes to the hills of Abruzzo. They are electric, fresh and funky with brash aromas and flavors of fruit, flowers, herbs, minerals and earth. A fixture in the world's most celebrated natural wine establishments, it is easy to see why these wines are so loved. They are raw and complex while being imbued with the joyous nature of the wonderful humans behind them.
