Women in Wine & Spirits

Women Producers

Celebrating the innovators redefining Italy’s wine and spirits heritage and sharing their work through guided tastings, meaningful conversations, and cross-border connection.

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Meet the producers.

Select a producer to read her profile and explore the websites supplied for her companies.

Marilisa Allegrini

Villa Della Torre Poggio al Tesoro San Polo

Marilisa Allegrini, known as “Lady Amarone,” is an Italian wine entrepreneur with over four decades of experience promoting Italian wines worldwide. Alongside her daughters, Carlotta and Caterina, she leads the Marilisa Allegrini Group, uniting Villa Della Torre in Veneto with Poggio al Tesoro and San Polo in Tuscany through a shared passion for wine, art and hospitality.

Micaela Pallini

Pallini S.p.A.

Micaela Pallini is President and CEO of Pallini S.p.A., a family-owned Italian spirits company founded in 1875 and based in Rome. Representing the fifth generation, she combines her background in chemistry with a passion for Italian craftsmanship, guiding the company behind the renowned Pallini Limoncello through innovation and international growth.

Nadia Zenato

Zenato

Nadia Zenato is an Italian wine entrepreneur who leads Zenato alongside her brother, Alberto. Founded by their parents in 1960 near Lake Garda, the family winery is known for its Lugana, Amarone and Ripassa wines. Nadia oversees marketing and international development, sharing her family’s winemaking heritage with audiences worldwide.

Chiara Lungarotti

Lungarotti

Chiara Lungarotti is an Italian wine entrepreneur and CEO of Lungarotti, the family winery founded by her father Giorgio in Torgiano, Umbria, in the early 1960s. Trained in agriculture and viticulture, she has led the company since 1999, combining innovation and sustainability with a commitment to her family’s winemaking heritage and the region’s traditions.

Marina Cvetić

Masciarelli Tenute Agricole

Marina Cvetić leads Masciarelli Tenute Agricole alongside her daughter, Miriam Lee, continuing the work she began with Gianni Masciarelli. Based in Abruzzo, the family winery is known for its Montepulciano and Trebbiano wines, combining regional identity with international reach and wine tourism at Castello di Semivicoli.

Miriam Lee Masciarelli

Masciarelli Tenute Agricole

Miriam Lee Masciarelli represents the next generation of Masciarelli Tenute Agricole, the Abruzzo winery founded by her father, Gianni. Working with her mother, Marina Cvetić, she shares the family’s wines with international audiences and brings contemporary art and hospitality into its continuing story.

Roberta Bricolo

Azienda Agricola Gorgo

Roberta Bricolo is the proprietor of Gorgo, the Custoza winery founded by her parents in 1975. A former lawyer, she has guided its transition to organic viticulture, producing wines that reflect the grape varieties and landscape of the area between Verona and Lake Garda.

Alicia Lini

Lini 910

Alicia Lini is the fourth-generation representative of Lini 910, her family’s historic winery in Correggio. Founded in 1910, the estate is dedicated to Lambrusco and sparkling wines. Alicia shares this Emilian heritage internationally, highlighting the variety and craftsmanship behind the family’s production.

Giovanna Caponi

Le Palaie

Giovanna Caponi leads Le Palaie in Peccioli, continuing the estate founded by her father, Nino, in 1996. The Tuscan property brings together wine production, olive growing and agriturismo. Giovanna carries forward its family identity through a close relationship with the land and a focus on hospitality.

Filomena Iacobucci

Terre Stregate

Filomena Iacobucci represents the Iacobucci family at Terre Stregate in Campania’s Sannio region. Working alongside her brother, Carlo, she supports the development of a business rooted in wine and olive oil, bringing its Falanghina and other regional wines to a wider audience.

Chiara Abbona

Marziano Abbona

Chiara Abbona works alongside her family at Marziano Abbona, the Dogliani winery known for Papà Celso and its broader range of Langhe wines. Together with her father and sister, Mara, she continues the family’s dedication to its vineyards while bringing a new generation’s perspective to the business.

Francesca Paladin

Casa Paladin

Francesca Paladin is part of the third generation guiding Casa Paladin, a family wine group with estates across several Italian regions. Through its diverse portfolio, she promotes the relationship between wine and place while supporting international growth and the family’s commitment to sustainability.

Maria Faretra

Maria Faretra Wines

Maria Faretra represents her namesake wine business in northern Puglia, sharing the character of Capitanata through organic wines. Based in Orta Nova, the female-led producer works with Nero di Troia, Primitivo and Malbech, combining local heritage with a contemporary approach to wine and sustainability.

Natalie Oliveros

La Fiorita

Natalie Oliveros owns La Fiorita, the Montalcino estate dedicated to expressing the diversity of Sangiovese. Drawing on her Italian family heritage, she works with the winery team on Brunello di Montalcino and wines such as Fiore di NO and Ninfalia, giving a personal direction to the estate’s production.

Annamaria Sorricchio di Valforte

Tenute Barone di Valforte

Annamaria Sorricchio di Valforte continues her family’s wine heritage at Barone di Valforte in Abruzzo. Working with her father and uncle, she contributes to an estate whose history stretches back centuries and whose production focuses on regional wines and respect for the surrounding environment.

Elena Fucci

Azienda Agricola Elena Fucci

Elena Fucci is the winemaker behind her namesake estate in Barile, Basilicata. Founded in 2000 to continue her family’s vineyard tradition, the winery is closely associated with Titolo and Aglianico del Vulture. Elena combines her technical training with a commitment to the distinctive landscape of Mount Vulture.

Chiara Soldati

La Scolca

Chiara Soldati leads La Scolca, her family’s historic Gavi winery, as owner and CEO. A fourth-generation entrepreneur and Cavaliere del Lavoro, she promotes the estate’s Cortese wines and sparkling cuvées worldwide, continuing a family tradition that dates to 1919.

Francesca Mecchia

Vigna Petrussa

Francesca Mecchia works alongside her mother, Hilde Petrussa, at Vigna Petrussa in Prepotto. Bringing her architectural background to the family business, she represents its third generation of women. The winery celebrates Friuli’s native varieties, especially Schioppettino, and the identity of its hillside vineyards.

Francesca Bardelli Nonino

Nonino Distillatori

Francesca Bardelli Nonino brings a sixth-generation perspective to Nonino Distillatori, her family’s historic Friulian spirits business. Through international work and digital communication, she shares the culture of grappa with new audiences, connecting contemporary storytelling with a distilling tradition established in 1897.

Barbara Galassi

Cantina Paltrinieri

Barbara Galassi co-owns Cantina Paltrinieri in Sorbara with her husband, Alberto. Since taking over in 1998, they have continued the winery’s focus on Lambrusco di Sorbara and its local vineyards, carrying forward a family tradition established in 1926.

Cecilia Paltrinieri

Cantina Paltrinieri

Cecilia Paltrinieri oversees hospitality at Cantina Paltrinieri, her family’s Lambrusco winery in Sorbara. Representing a new generation alongside her parents, Alberto and Barbara, she welcomes visitors and shares the story of a wine business rooted in the Modena area since 1926.