Marisa Cuomo
Cantine Marisa Cuomo began in 1980 as a wedding gift: Andrea Ferraioli, heir to generations of Furore winegrowers, bought the historic “Gran Furor Divina Costiera” brand (est. 1942) for his bride, Marisa. Together — and with celebrated oenologist Luigi Moio — they transformed ten hectares of impossible, stone-terraced cliffside into one of Italy’s most acclaimed estates.
Everything here is done by hand, because it must be. Pergola-trained vines cling horizontally to dolomitic-limestone rock at up to 500 meters above the sea, in terraced plots too steep and too small for any machine. The cellar itself is carved into the living rock, keeping the estate’s French barriques naturally cool as the wines rest.
The mission from day one: rescue the coast’s thousand-year-old native grapes. Ripoli, Fenile, and Ginestra star in the legendary Fiorduva — the barrique-fermented white that in 2006 became the first Southern Italian wine ever named Italy’s best, a golden marvel of apricot, broom flower, sea salt, and saffron. Around it, a family of Costa d’Amalfi DOC wines — Furore Bianco, Furore Rosso Riserva, and the Ravello bottlings — pour rock, sun, and salt spray into every glass.
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