Name and address
Tenimento di Casamara
Via Colle Pizzuto, 104
00044 Frascati (RM)
Phone. 06 9408164
Fax 06 9408164
e-mail: casamara@freemail.it
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Type
Wine Farms
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DOC area
Frascati DOC Area
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Town
Frascati
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Place
From the GRA take the highway A2 in direction Naples and then the splip-road Torranova. Then travel along via Passolombardo up to the crossroad, then via di vermicino, up to the highway’s bridge, where there is via colle pizzuto. This company is located after 50 metres on the left.
By train: Roma-Frascati or Roma-Frosinone. At the railway station Tor vergata (200 metres from this company).
By bus: From Frascati take the bus toward Cister
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Classification 
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Note
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Opening time
In every period of the year. By reservation.
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| Description |
This company consists of two properties: one of 5 hectares where there is the ancient homestead and an adjacent one of 6 hectares. It is located on a hill (280 metres) with a panoramic on Rome and the Colli Tuscolani.
It mainly produces Frascati doc superiore, red wine, and olive oil. The Tenimento di Casamara, located in the same place consists of an ancient homestead built in the 1700 on the ruins of a roman vicus of the 1st century dC near the ancient aqueduct Anio Novus. In the garden of this company it is possible to see several ruins. The homestead extends on a surface of 2000 square meters, with an wine cellar of the first years of the 20th century, where the wine is still vinified even if utilizing modern machineries.
There is also a small museum showing tools used in agriculture to cultivate vineyards.
A free tasting room with a fireplace is under construction. It is possible to buy bottled wines, in packages with 3 or 6 bottles, and it is possible to send small quantities abroad. The protected parking areas can host one bus and up to 10 cars. Personnel speak English and French. For a short holiday it is possible to rent small flats.
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