Markets —
Explaining Gaglioppo to people who have never heard of it
Three years of fairs outside Italy taught us the problem is not the wine. It is the first sentence you say while you pour.
Cirò (KR) · Calabria — since 1968
Four labels.
Six parcels.
An open ledger.
Cirò, on the Ionian coast of Calabria. Gaglioppo and Greco Bianco on sand and iron-rich clay, eight hundred metres from the sea. Hand harvest, concrete and large oak, nothing added beyond sulphites at bottling.
- Appellation
- Cirò DOC
- Current vintage
- 2025
- Grapes
- Gaglioppo · Greco
- 2025 Riserva
- not made
- Hectares under vine
- 18,1
- Parcels
- 6
- 2025 bottles
- 37.600
- First vintage
- 1968
§ 01
The labels
Four wines, one for each thing this land knows how to do.
SD—01Sìdero Rosso ClassicoCirò Rosso Classico DOCThe everyday bottle — which is the hardest kind to get right.SD—02Punta AliceCirò Rosato DOCPicked at five in the morning, because by eight it is already too late.SD—03LipudaCirò Bianco DOCThe grape the Greeks brought here, still exactly where they left it.SD—04Sìdero RiservaCirò Rosso Classico Superiore Riserva DOCMade only in the years when Sèrrone decides it should be.
§ 02
The plan
Hover a parcel to read its record.
Parcel — Sèrrone
Sèrrone
- Surface
- 3,4 ha
- Altitude
- 232 m
- Exposure
- South-west
- Grape
- Gaglioppo
- Planted
- 1961
- Soil
- Iron-rich clay, limestone skeleton
The oldest vines on the estate, bush-trained. Picked by hand into 15 kg crates because no tractor fits between the rows.
Bottled as
Switch parcel
§ 03
The year in the vineyard
Twelve months, six phases, no pause.
Right now
Harvest
By hand, in 15 kg crates. In 2025 it took just fourteen days.
- Pruning
- J — F
- Budburst
- M — A
- Flowering
- M — J
- Veraison
- J — A
- Harvest
- S — O
- Dormancy
- N — D
§ 04
From the journal
What happens outside, written while it happens.
Vineyard —
Why we prune late, and what it costs us
For six years we have pushed pruning at Sèrrone to late January. Every year someone asks whether that is wise. The short answer is no.
Putting Sìdero on your list
We work with restaurants and wine shops across Italy and with importers in six countries. Terms, formats and lead times are all on the trade page.
Coming to see us
The cellar is open by appointment all year, except in September, when we are in the vineyard from dawn. Three visit formats, in Italian and English.