Alberto Gandolfi and Alida Beretta sold the family textile business in northern Italy and moved into winemaking around 2013 — the name plays on filo, the thread of their textile past, and divino, of wine. They found an abandoned farmhouse in the hills of San Marcello, surrounded by 17.5 hectares of neglected vineyard, including seven hectares of Verdicchio already more than fifty years old.
They rebuilt the whole thing, in order: vineyards replanted and extended, an underground cellar dug into the hill, the ruined casa colonica turned into suites by architect Cristiana Dall'Acqua, and then a spa and an infinity pool added over the vines. Two hundred metres up, half an hour from the Adriatic, it works as a wine resort as much as a winery — the land came first, and the welcome was layered on after.
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