Where It All Begins

Battipaglia · Piana del Sele · Campania

Vines two years in the ground, on land the family has held since 1975.

Rosicapezze sits on the Piana del Sele, five kilometres from the sea and half an hour north of the Greek temples of Paestum. Buffalo dairies to one side, the Cilento mountains to the other, the Amalfi coast a ferry ride up the water.

The first vines went into the ground in 2024. They will not tell us what they are for another eight years. Everything here is an invitation to come along in the meantime.

Aerial view of the Rosicapezze estate on the Piana del Sele
The whole property from the air — olives, the worked strip, the plain behind.

Three ways in

Newly staked rows running across freshly worked groundThe LandThe ground, the vines, and the year they keep.A bowl of olives and lemons on a kitchen tableThe StoryA war, an ocean, and the generations who held on to the land long enough for someone to plant it.Three men standing arm in arm in the newly planted fieldThe ExperiencesHow it was built, mostly by hand. What the estate will do. And everything worth seeing within an hour of the gate.

Letters from the land

Seasonal notes, harvest dates, and first refusal on the small tables we set.

Nothing else. A few times a year, when there is something worth saying.

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Photographs from the February 2025 planting by Makoa Freitas.