Three friends who decide to rent an old vineyard, partly for fun and partly out of passion: thus was born this small winery that makes wine from grapes from a number of vineyards in several small towns in the Cosenza hinterland. Lappano, Frascineto, Mottafollone, Altomonte, Cirò, and Strongoli are some of the small municipalities from which grapes grown on their own or by selected suppliers, either organically or conventionally, arrive. This is the story of an engineer (Pierpaolo), an architect (Damiano) and a teacher (Michele), the story of a friendship linked together with the cultivation of vines. They have a natural and organic approach, they cultivate only indigenous vines such as magliocco dolce and magliocco canino, gaglioppo, greco nero and greco bianco, montonico, pecorello and guarnaccia nera. The small vineyard “di Alberto” (consisting of less than half hectare under 30 years-old vines) is a sort of seedbed for old vine varieties from Calabria, with complantation giving birth to “Appianum”, main protagonist of the winery. The cellar has been built inside of a disused cinema of the 50s and it is now the home of this new reality destined to become an icon of Calabria wines.