An ancient experience

The Calò Estates were founded two centuries ago in Salento area, where Leopoldo Calò owned a small farm producing grapes and olives. His grandson, Giuseppe, set up a sales branch in Albizzate, near Varese, at the end of the 1930s to distribute the family wines in the north of Italy. In 1963, when his son Mino joined the company, Rosa del Golfo was the develop a rosé wine from Salento which soon established such a high reputation that even to the extent that it was taken as the name of the company itself in 1988.