February 26, 2025

Decanter
Francesco Carfagna of Altura Vigneto is a kind of “godfather” of Giglio’s wine industry and helped revive the island’s wine culture after it nearly died in the late 20th century. His journey began in the late 1990s when he restored a vineyard on the Capel Rosso Promontory where the Ansonica grape had flourished for centuries. By 1996, only 10-13 hectares of cultivated land had remained, worked by a handful of dedicated vignerons who Francesco calls “the irreducible [unyielding, diehard] ones.”