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Mastroberardino is one of Italy’s leading wineries and wine families. Its history dates to the early 18th century. As one of Italy’s top winemaking estates, it holds a proud place in Italy’s viticultural history as a guardian of native grapes of southern Italy’s Campania region. The family has not just worked to maintain them but has also successfully turned almost extinct grapes into world class varieties. Starting from the first half of the 18th century, the family established itself in the town of Atripalda in the mountains of the Southern Apennines, some 50 km inland from Naples. In 1878, Angelo Mastroberardino, great-grandfather of the current president, Piero Mastroberardino, started exporting the family wines first to Europe, and then, thanks to the pioneering journeys of his son Michele Mastroberardino, to North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Antonio Mastroberardino, Piero’s father, well known as “the archaeologist of vine and wine,” was the architect of the replanting program that paved the way for the relaunch of Irpinia viticulture after WWII. He also did great things for the once obscure Aglianico grape — Antonio’s efforts were credited with bringing it back from extinction and establishing Taurasi (made from 100 percent Aglianico) as a world class wine. Today Mastroberardino owns more than 260 hectares of vineyards on 17 wine estates located in Irpinia, in the southern Apennines, planted mainly to Aglianico, Fiano and Greco.