i. Biography
“A vision and a desire that drives me since I was a child.”
Coming Up
Ownership of Ceraudo has been held by Roberto Ceraudo since 1973, and that continuity is the point. The work reads as stewardship rather than turnover: one name attached to one place over time, with Contrada Dattilo carried alongside it. In trade terms, this is what long control looks like — a career measured in years of attention, not in exits or reinventions.
Where They Are Now
Contrada Dattilo in Strongoli Marina, Calabria, Italy remains part of the same working frame Roberto Ceraudo has kept for decades. Calabria is not just where the operation sits; it is the ground that gives the operation its shape.
Signature
Petelia Bianco 2022, Petelia White 2019, and Grayasusi Etichetta Rame Rosato Val di Neto IGT are the named wines attached to Roberto Ceraudo. The set is small and specific, which says something useful about the cellar: identity is carried through a limited register of labels, each one part of the same sustained practice. The emphasis is on consistency across names, not on volume of release.
In Their Words “When everyone was going to the beach in summer, I was here working.” That line points straight to the labor behind the position. It places the work in the season when others were elsewhere, and it shows early proximity to the daily demands of the field rather than distance from them. “I was nearly in a coma, and for days I was more dead than alive.” The sentence is blunt, and it leaves little room for polish. It records a severe interruption in the life around the work, the kind of event that sits beside a career rather than inside the promotional version of it.
Profile updated July 2026
