Collection: Paolo Petrilli

Motta della Regina, Puglia

La Motticella has a long history as a coaching house, it had been allowed to run to ruin before Paolo and Paula arrived in 1997 to breathe new life into the house and land. Paolo is a perfectionist, a man of the land who set about restoring not just the buildings but also reviving indigenous varieties for agriculture and altruism. Ancient varieties of Mediterranean oaks mature alongside the recovered local varieties of tomatoes which have made this farm famous. We sometimes have an allocation of his tomato products, but in truth the wines captivated us first. 

For the past ten years Paolo has focused on his terroir and on the improvement of his wines. His team, including agronomist, Philip Giannone, and enologist, Andrea Boaretti, have done invaluable work to promote Cacc'e Mmitte of Lucera, one of the oldest DOCs of the south, which had all but disappeared and is now rising from obscurity.