Tenuta Iuzzolini is a family estate on the Ionian coast near Cirò Marina, one of Calabria's oldest and most historically significant wine areas. The Iuzzolini family had grown grapes for generations, but it was only in 2004 that four siblings — Pasquale, Diego, Antonio and Rosa — decided to stop selling grapes in bulk and start bottling wine of their own, with a clear mission: to bring the Calabria name to the world stage.
Today the estate spans some 500 hectares — 100 of them vineyard, alongside olive groves, arable land and pasture for wild-raised Podolica cattle — and produces over two million bottles a year. The focus stays firmly on Calabria's own native grapes: Gaglioppo, Greco Bianco and Magliocco, rather than defaulting to international varieties. The estate's cellar sits five metres underground, built by restoring 18th-century stone and brick, and its Donna Giovanna late-harvest Greco Bianco has been recognised with a 98-point score from critic Luca Maroni.