The Land

The Sorrentino’s Company is located in Boscotrecase, the ancient Silva Mala, which belonged to King Carlo D’Angiò in the XIX century. The Sorrentino’s land lays over the foot of Vesuvio in a famous archeological area in the heart of a large pentagon, shaped by the ancient towns of Pompei, Oplontis, Stabia, and Ercolano, and on the final side the Gulf of Naples: a magnificent landscape, rich in historical features and touristic pearls like the Sorrento peninsula and the isles of Capri and Ischia. Sorrentino’s vineyards rise in a land full of a invigorating history, veined with mysticism and social upheavals. The farm’s vines lay on Boscotrecase soil, the ancient "Bosco delle Tre Case Religiose" (The Wood of the Three Religious Houses), on the foot of the Sterminator Vesevo, the name the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi gave to the Vesuvius.

During the middle-ages, the pious and powerful queen Sancha D’Angio decided to join together three of the main royal monasteries of Angevin Naples in one district, in 1337. Since then, the name of Boscotrecase has been officially adopted. This land, veined with "Fire Giant’s" lava, blessed by the strong southern sun and overlooking the Gulf of Naples and its jewels, became in centuries past a place for a simple and hard-working people, who knew how to love it and live with it in symbiosis.
During the age of the "Two-Sicilies" kingdom, which ended in 1860 with the unification of Italy, the Mastrogiurato, the mayor, directly elected by the citizens, used to assure quietness and peace to this wonderful environment that still produces a noble wine of a rare quality.

In the early XIX century the upheaval of Napoleon’s Italian campaign reached even the little vesuvian land, which became a real Commune with a royal act in October, 29th , 1808.