It all started at the beginning of 2003

Gaudi is a place in Candida, a small village in the South of Italy of 900 souls, whose inhabitants live mostly on agriculture.

IThe estate “i Gaudi” belonged to my family because one of my ancestors Pellegrino De Lauri, Commanding Officer of the Bourbon Naval Fleet, bought it to grow buckwheat.

In 1860 Garibaldi’s soldiers entered Candida to kill the Commander, who managed to escape and was forced to emigrate to France where he lived until 1898.

To survive, his family had to sell the estate which was bought back by my grandmother who, by selling the estate products, managed to make her seven daughters study and get married.

In 2003 I planted the vineyard and over the years a beautiful house was built.

The first vintage was in 2007

I wondered what kind of product I wanted to make and the answer was quite simple: to produce organic grapes to achieve top quality wines. I studied, did research, and asked consultants in the pursuit of crafting genuine wines representative of time and place. That’s why I gave my Fiano the name of the place, “I Gaudi”.

I work with grassy vineyards, I never try to push the production by vine and I do the harvests exclusively by hand.

The technological part of the cellar is entrusted to a partner and for the vinification process, I use a sister cellar where I personally follow all the phases, from crushing and pressing to bottling.

Harvest after harvest, learning from my mistakes, I’ve realised that by managing the vineyard better, you can get a higher quality wine. Irpinia is an area of ancient wine making traditions and quality always comes first at I Gaudi

When bottled, my Fiano, as well as Aglianico, Taurasi and Greco di Tufo represent a victory and an emotion for me and my team. Emotion for elegance, excellence and quality.

With humility and without arrogance we will carry on our work challenging the climate, the spring frosts, the hail and the market crises, knowing that customers tasting my wines will experience my same emotions and my same love for a wine that always aims at excell.

Beppe Sarno

The Label

The label comes from a poster of the 30s advertising a shipping company. I was impressed by the representation of the waves which could also look like rows of vines. For this reason, I took the waves from the poster and got the current “Gaudi” logo. At the top left, there is a small sail as evidence of my passion for the sea and for this I coined the phrase “the farmer is a sailor on land”.