Situated on the lower slopes of the Lepini mountains in southeastern Lazio, around 50km south of Rome, the ancient hilltop village of Cori dates all the way back to the fourth century B.C. and was supposedly settled almost 300 years prior to the Italian capital. It is here that the Carpineti family have for generations now tended to a patchwork of grape vines, today led by current-day patriarch Marco Caprineti, who has guided the estate forward since taking the reins in 1986. Having converted the entire property to organic viticulture in the mid 1990s, Marco is now employing biodynamic principles both among his vines and in the cantina, with the estate also doubling as a ‘vine nursery’ of sorts, the vineyards playing home to some of the few plantings of obscure varietals like Nero Buono, Greco Moro, and Bellone still remaining anywhere in the country.