Tenuta Maffone

About Winery and Wines

Tenuta Maffone is the story of a family and of a little corner of Liguria. A unique land called "frazione Acquetico", at 500-600 meters over sea level, kissed by the sun and caressed by the light winds of mediterranean sea a tiny strip of land inhabited by few dozen of people in the province of Imperia - A magic place where the tradition of "producing good wine and oil" cooperates with the surrounding natural resorses. From 1950 vineyards of Tenuta Maffone enchant those who descoveres them and produce refined wines of unfor getable "ligurian taste". A precious production, strictly doc wich includes "Ormeasco di Pornassio", "sciac-trà" and "Pigato" of Liguria's west Riviera. In addition to it there are olso waine distilled grappe highly selected and an unmissable line of extra-vergin olive oil unfiltered. "Tenuta Maffone" is a "ligurian story", a story to discover and tell.

Our main production is of Ormeasco grapes - native vine of our Arroscia Valley - with this grape we produce Ormeasco wine in the following types: Ormeasco classico - Superiore - Sciac-trà (rosé) - Passito and we are the only ones to produce Metodo Classico - moreover we cultivate and vinify Pigato at 500 meters above sea level - very rare at this altitude.