Ambassadors of Verdicchio in the world
On the initiative of 19 founding partners, Colonnara was founded in 1959 in Cupramontana, in what has been called "the capital" of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi.
Since the beginning the cultivated vineyards are located on the right bank of the Esino river, in Cupramontana, Apiro, Staffolo, San Paolo di Jesi, in an area of medium-high hills that gives the wines a mineral, acidulous characteristic, which will prove decisive in the development of our excellent products. Starting in the early 1960s and with the recognition of the Verdicchio Doc (1968), began the experimentation on the potential of this vine and on the aging possibilities of one of the few Italian white wines suited to aging.
Hand in hand with the gradual expansion of the winery, which today has more than a hundred members and produces the main regional Docs, we have consolidated our expertise in the Metodo Classico and Martinotti sparkling wine which places us among the reference producers in the Marche.
Colonnara, passion and expertise of over one hundred winemakers
Discovering Colonnara means first of all meeting the stories and faces of the wine-grower members who for decades have cared about the careful and rigorous cultivation of grapes in the vineyard, then entrusted to the care and experience of our cellarhands and winemakers.
Today there are more than one hundred members who share the spirit and values of Colonnara: a company that lives its time respecting traditions, which takes the right time to age wines and sparkling wines, which is always ready to welcome those who want to visit her and get to know her more closely.

The aging cellar
The aging cellar is the heart of our company.
Here, where our bottles rest for years and silence is interrupted only by the ritual movements of our cellarhands, it is possible to grasp the very essence of Colonnara: the desire to recover ancient traditions and to constantly invest in experimentation to obtain excellent results.
The 80s were decisive years for our winery: at that time the wines and sparkling wines for aging were born, which today are our flagship: the Verdicchio Metodo Classico and the red and white wine selections like Cuprese , a Verdicchio that can withstand 30 years in the bottle.
In 1989 we therefore created this space where the almost total absence of light, a constant temperature of around 14-16 ° C, the right humidity, the absence of noise and vibrations, are fundamental elements for the correct aging process of wines.

The wine tower
One of the few still preserved in Italy, the wine tower is a symbol of Colonnara and dominates the hill on which our winery has always been. It was designed in 1961 based on a design by Ing. Luigi Spinolo of Piacenza whose patent however was of the winemaker Emilio Sernagiotto and of the Ing. P. Marchino.
The structure in vitrified cement, a material particularly suitable for storing wine due to its ability to maintain a constant temperature inside it and today much appreciated, is constituted by a system of communicating tanks that exploit the force of gravity to make the wine flow down from the tanks higher than the lower ones, thus limiting the use of hydraulic pumps.
The lower part of the tower is still used today for some stages of winemaking.
