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Cantina Le Macchie

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Mountain wines. Italian food. Authentic hospitality.

Discover a family-run winery in the hills of Rieti, in Lazio, just over one hour from Rome.

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The Winery

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Our Story

Back to where it all began

Until the 1970s, our family lived from the land, producing wine and olive oil on the hills of Castelfranco.

Years later, we chose to return to our roots and begin again, turning a family tradition into a new winemaking project.

Today, our vineyards grow between 600 and 1,000 metres above sea level, surrounded by the mountains and hills of Rieti. Here, altitude, significant temperature changes between day and night, and time shape wines with a distinctive identity.

This is our idea of mountain winemaking: respect for the land, patience and a constant desire to explore what this unique territory can express.

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More than a wine tasting

We don’t simply want to tell you about our territory through a bottle. We want you to experience it.

Walk through our mountain vineyards, discover how our wines are made, step inside our historic cellar in Castelfranco and taste our wines in the place where they were born.

Your experience can continue at the table with our local cuisine or turn into an unforgettable stay at our Wine Resort, surrounded by vineyards and nature.

Whether you are looking for a wine tasting, a food and wine experience or a relaxing stay in the Italian countryside, Cantina Le Macchie offers different ways to discover our world.

Wine · Food · Hospitality

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A wine experience between Rome and Umbria

Make Cantina Le Macchie part of your journey through Central Italy.

Located in the hills of Rieti, our winery is an ideal stop for travellers exploring Rome, the Marmore Falls, Lake Piediluco and the Umbrian towns of Spoleto, Todi and Assisi.

Leave the busy tourist routes behind for a few hours and discover another side of Italy: mountain vineyards, local wines, traditional food and genuine hospitality.

Come for a wine tasting, stay for lunch or dinner, or slow down and spend the night at our Wine Resort.

A different way to experience Italy — through its wine, landscape and people.

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The

Cellar

Wine, history and family roots in the hills of Rieti, in the heart of Lazio.

At Cantina Le Macchie, our story begins with the land. From our mountain vineyards to our working winery and historic cellar in Castelfranco, every place tells a different part of the journey from grape to wine.

Our Roots

Sometimes moving forward means returning to where everything began.

For generations, our family has been connected to agriculture and to the land of Castelfranco. Years later, we chose to return to those roots and begin a new chapter, bringing together family tradition, research and a contemporary vision of wine.

Walking through our vineyards today means walking through a landscape shaped long before us — a place where memory, family and the work of the land continue to live side by side.

This connection with our origins is at the heart of Cantina Le Macchie and of every wine we produce.

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Castelfranco: A Story Written in Stone

Cantina Le Macchie is deeply connected to Castelfranco, a historic hilltop village overlooking Rieti.

Originally built in 1376 as a defensive stronghold on the border between the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples, Castelfranco was destroyed only a few months later during the conflicts that shaped this frontier land.

The Municipality of Rieti soon began rebuilding the settlement, encouraging new inhabitants to move there and strengthen its defences.

Centuries of history can still be seen throughout the village. Part of the ancient walls survives today, together with the gateway dating back to 1393 and the remains of the old observation and defence tower.

Narrow streets, stone passages and historic houses preserve the character of a place where the past remains part of everyday life.

panorama vigneto castelfranco

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cantina storica le macchie

The 15th-Century Historic Cellar

Hidden beneath Castelfranco is one of the most fascinating places in our story.

Our historic cellar dates back to the 15th century and still preserves traces of the ancient tanks once used for pressing grapes and fermenting wine.

Today, carefully restored and open to visitors, the cellar connects centuries of local winemaking tradition with the wines we produce today.

Its naturally low light and cool, stable temperature create ideal conditions for ageing wine. We also use these historic rooms for our traditional-method sparkling wine, which undergoes its second fermentation in the bottle here.

The historic cellar is an essential part of our Wine Tours: a place where visitors can experience the connection between wine, history and territory rather than simply hear about it.

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The stages of

bottling

The

Climate

Terminillo peaks protect our vineyards from the North cold winds while,
on the South, the area benefits from the Mediterranean influences coming from Rieti valley,
ancient “Lacus Velinus” site. These orographic characteristics make Rieti the town
with the highest daily temperature range favouring an elegant grapes ripening.

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Vines

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White clones of Malvasia and Trebbiano and red ones of Cesenese, Montepulciano and Sangiovese were traditionally grown
in Rieti area. Our technicians have decided to plant nordic vines such as Traminer and Rhine Riesling which showed a perfect
adaptation to the local pedological, climatic and environmental characteristics.