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Villa Simone

Monte Porzio Catone · Roma (RM)
← Lazio
Established
1982
Piero Costantini
Yearly production
Location
Monte Porzio Catone, Roma (RM), Lazio
Roma (RM)
Vineyard area
estate

Appellations

Frascati Superiore DOCGFrascati DOC

History

Villa Simone was founded in 1982 by Piero Costantini, a Rome wine merchant of Marche ancestry, who bought the abandoned Cardinal Pallotta estate at Monte Porzio Catone to make a serious Frascati.

He replanted with quality varieties such as Malvasia del Lazio on low-yield espalier systems.

Today the estate is run by the oenologist Lorenzo Costantini; the Vigneto Filonardi is a signature single vineyard.

Wines

Illustrative selection
Frascati Superiore 'Vigneto Filonardi'
Frascati Superiore DOCG · Malvasia del Lazio, Malvasia di Candia
Single-vineyard.
Frascati Superiore
Frascati Superiore DOCG · Malvasia, Trebbiano
Frascati
Frascati DOC · Malvasia, Trebbiano
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