The Casamara Estate
A history that goes back a long way, to when rich Roman senators and generals built their rural villas on these hills for their summer holidays. This is where the Tenimento gets its name: in this area the consul Caius Marius built his own summer villa, which is why the road in front of our estate is still called ‘via di Casal di Mario’.
The Ventura family
It was 1936 when the Ventura family bought the Casamara estate and 1943 when they moved in. On the fateful 8 September, one day before the Cassibile Armistice, the Allied forces unleashed the ‘noon fire’, bombing Frascati in four passes and damaging the Ventura family’s previous home.
At the Casamara estate, the Venturas found land that was already partly cultivated, with wheat, olive trees and vineyards. It was thus that the head of the family Virgilio decided to take up the business of wine-growing, expanding the vineyards until the existing cultivation became what is now the Casamara Estate and selling the wine produced in the family-owned tavern in Frascati.
In the post-war period, the business grew, gaining importance in the Frascati scene: in the 1960s, the considerable production allowed wholesale sales to Rome as well, taking advantage of the revival of Roman tourism in the Castelli, a popular destination since ancient times.
In 1966, a Decree of the President of the Republic established the Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) of Frascati, stimulating the birth of cooperative wineries and enhancing the Colli Albani wine industry.
