Cantine I Favati
Tucked into the hills of Irpinia, east of Naples, I Favati is a family winery whose roots trace back to the early 1900s, when the Favati family first made wine for their own table. That homegrown tradition became a formal winery in 1998, when the family built a dedicated pressing facility in Cesinali and released their first wine, a Fiano di Avellino, in 2000.
Today the estate is run by siblings Giancarlo and Piersabino Favati alongside Giancarlo’s wife, Rosanna Petrozziello, who together farm roughly 16 hectares across some of Irpinia’s most prized vineyard sites — many above 500 meters in elevation. The estate practices organic viticulture, intervening only when necessary and relying on copper and sulfur rather than synthetic treatments.
I Favati works almost exclusively with Irpinia’s indigenous varieties, producing benchmark examples of the region’s three DOCG appellations — Fiano di Avellino, Greco di Tufo, and Taurasi — alongside Aglianico d’Irpinia. The whites are precise and mineral-driven, while the reds, led by their Taurasi “Terzotratto” and the age-worthy Irpinia Campi Taurasini “Cretarossa,” show the structure and depth Aglianico is capable of when farmed with real care.
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