Storia
Family continuity on the estate
The Barons Statti have lived on the same 500-hectare Calabrian property since 1700. The family’s wine story traces its roots to 1784, the date now incorporated into the identity Statti 1784. Across this long period, the family also played a significant role in Calabria’s agricultural economy.
The estate developed as a diversified agricultural system rather than an exclusively wine-producing property. Its land encompasses vineyards, centuries-old olive groves, citrus orchards, arable fields, livestock operations and energy installations. This mixed structure remains central to the way the property is managed.
Alberto and Antonio Statti
Alberto Statti and Antonio Statti lead the contemporary chapter of the family enterprise. Their stated aim is to carry forward the estate’s historical and territorial ties while investing in innovation and in the recovery and promotion of Calabria’s indigenous grape varieties.
Transformation of the vineyards and winery
Over the past 20 years, substantial investment in vineyard plantings, winery infrastructure and personnel has transformed the estate. The program has focused on the premise that wine quality begins in the vineyard, with particular attention to training systems, vineyard care, crop levels and the timing of harvest.
The winery operates with a modern production cellar and an underground barrel cellar. Selected lots chosen by the estate’s oenologists mature in large barrels and barriques before release. By 2025, Nicola Colombo was identified as the oenologist of Cantine Statti.
Continuing development
In 2026 Statti introduced ROSÉ, a new Charmat-method sparkling wine conceived as an extension of Bluette, its established sparkling white. The release added a rosé expression to the estate’s younger, convivial sparkling range while retaining the Statti 1784 identity.
Terroir
The estate lies in Contrada Lenti, on the plain of Lamezia Terme, described as Calabria’s agricultural heart. Its recorded coordinates are 38° 55′ 43.45″ N, 16° 19′ 55.52″ E.
The approximately 100 hectares of vines sit close to a hill that shelters them from winds arriving from the sea. At the broader territorial level, sunshine, wind and proximity to the sea are presented as influences on the character of the estate’s wines.
The vineyards form part of a continuous 500-hectare agricultural ecosystem that also contains extensive olive groves, citrus orchards, arable land and livestock. The hill carries the estate’s Carolea olives, while the plain below supports espalier-trained vines, including Mantonico, Greco and Gaglioppo.
Vinificazione
Statti’s vineyard work is organized around careful choices of training system, crop level and harvest date. The vines are espalier-trained and spur-pruned on cordons. Their spacing accommodates mechanization of almost all vineyard operations.
Yields per hectare are intentionally kept from becoming excessive. Green pruning is one of the tools used to control the crop during the growing season. Fertility is partly supplied with manure produced by the cattle operation on the same estate, linking viticulture to the property’s broader mixed-farming cycle.
The harvest calendar extends from mid-August into late October. White varieties and international red varieties are picked first; the indigenous grapes conclude the season. The sequence allows the estate to respond to the differing maturation periods of its varieties.
Investment over the past 20 years has encompassed new plantings, vineyard infrastructure and skilled personnel, forming part of a wider modernization of both vineyard and cellar operations.
The production complex includes a modern winery and an underground barrel cellar. Harvest selections are made by the estate’s oenologists, and selected lots mature in large wooden barrels and barriques. Bâtonnage is among the cellar operations practiced underground.
The portfolio demonstrates the use of stainless steel, 30-hectolitre acacia barrels, 30-hectolitre oak barrels, French-oak barriques and bottle maturation, but the precise regime varies by wine. The winery works with controlled-temperature fermentations and produces still white, rosé and red wines, passito, lightly sparkling wines, Charmat-method sparkling wine and traditional-method Vino Spumante di Qualità.
Filosofia
Statti places the vineyard at the beginning of the quality process. Training choices, daily care, crop management and harvest timing are treated as the foundations of wine quality, rather than as secondary operations preceding cellar work.
The family’s contemporary direction combines continuity and innovation. Alberto and Antonio Statti seek to preserve the property’s historical relationship with Calabria while using investment, research and modern infrastructure to recover and promote indigenous varieties.
The estate is conceived as a connected agricultural organism. Vineyards, olive groves, citrus orchards, arable fields, cattle and energy installations are intended to function in an increasingly harmonious and interdependent way. The reuse of cattle manure in the vineyards is a practical expression of that model.
Calabria’s indigenous grapes are regarded as a patrimony to be rediscovered and given renewed value. Greco, Mantonico, Greco Nero, Gaglioppo and Magliocco serve as principal vehicles for expressing this territorial identity, while the estate also works with international varieties.