Mariano Buglioni

Career At Buglioni in San Pietro in Cariano, Valpolicella Classico, Italy, Mariano Buglioni worked as winemaker with a brief that placed the vineyard and cellar under natural limits first: “We don't set the rules, nature does.” That position matters in Valpolicella, where the work is less about forcing a result than reading what the season will give and working within it.

Coming Up

Training at L'Ornia Accounting School sits outside the usual winemaking path, but it is part of the record for Mariano Buglioni.

Signature

The named wines associated with Mariano include Il Lussurioso Amarone and 44 Vertical. Those signatures place his name alongside Amarone, the region’s defining category, and a second bottling that marks the range of his work at Buglioni.

In Their Words The practical side of vineyard work shows up in the questions a cellar has to ask before harvest, and Mariano Buglioni describes that process plainly: “We went back to the wineries and said, “How do we cut the grapes? What kind of scissors do we use?”” Supply and access are part of the same trade equation. Buglioni also records the response they met when asking for fruit: “They all said, “We don’t need more grapes,” and we said, “But we don’t want money. It’s for free.””