Drengot

History, tradition and ambition: a mix underlying Drengot’s success and part of a clear entrepreneurial vision of its founder, Alberto Verde.
Born with the intention of making the autochtonous vine Asprinio known in the world, Drengot is an excellence of Campania region’s viticulture that starts from an ancient winemaking tradition in order to protect and enhance it. A small, very young company based in the countryside of Aversa, it takes its name from Rainulfo Drengot, a Norman noble who became the first count of Aversa in 1030.
It is the very strong bond with the territory that is an inseparable element of Drengot’s DNA: although it is not easy to reconstruct historical elements of hundreds and even thousands of years ago, what is certain is that Asprinio of Aversa is one of the oldest vines in Italy and that it was used for the first sparkling wines that took place in our country, at the time when the D ‘ Anjou were rulers.
Beyond legends, certain data and rumors, it is now established that Drengot is the forefather of a movement rediscovering the local wine tradition by offering sparkling and still white wines based on the autochthonous Asprinio cultivated by means of the unique “alberata Aversana”.
Asprinio vines, planted together with stakes such as popolar trees, envelop themselves by growing together and extending their shoots in height up to 20 meters. The practices in the vineyard therefore become unique, they are based on great experience and mastery in knowing how to use the “scalillo” (a very long and narrow ladder) in the most appropriate way to reach the top of the vine, and then transform the harvest into a unique spectacle in the world.
The soil receives, the soil gives back: after the right care given to the vines “married” to the poplars, it is then the subsoil that becomes the protagonist, providing tuff caves to host the fermentation and refinement processes of the first real sparkling wine in Southern Italy.
Limited yields, purity enhancement of an indigenous grape, practices in the vineyard and in the cellar that use traditional processes but looking to the future: what awaits Drengot and his interpretation of Asprinio spumante can only be radiant.