The project Grotta del Sole started in the early 1990s with the aim of recovering a few quality vinicultural areas of Campania which had long been abandoned, despite their celebrated past. Grotta del Sole has thus given new life to the Phlegraen Fields, with the Falanghina and Piedirosso varieties, the Sorrento Peninsula, with its Gragnano and Lettere and Agro Aversano with its Asprinio. As time passed, the same commitment was extended to Irpinia, which produces Greco, Fiano and Aglianico, and to Vesuvius, home to Lacryma Christi.

Recovering the vinicultural tradition of these areas was not easy and required a lot of work to experiment and make up for decades, if not centuries, of oblivion. Just as difficult it was to have a clear knowledge of the challenge involved: going back into time, to bring back from the past the wines of the future. It was not easy to identify the well-cultivated vineyards within Campania's landscape, often distorted by sprawling urbanisation. This is even more so in some of the areas selected - from the Phlegraen Fields to Agro Aversano, to the Lattari Mountains - where viticulture was in a state of total neglect: despite their age-old vinicultural tradition and their wines, celebrated by writers and poets for two thousand years, these areas were not even included among those with a registered designation of origin.

The Cantine Grotta del Sole winery was born out of the Martusciello family's love for the wines of their own land; and because of this love, the philosophy underlying the production aims at enhancing the taste of "terroir". The wines produced are those which can enhance the quality and potential of the grapes, without distorting their taste and aroma, that is, without producing a "commercial taste", a standardised simplification produced by modern oenology. Enough with commercial exaggerations, with consumerism that kills quality - Grotta del Sole bets on what the friendly nature of the Phlegraean Fields has managed to pass on to us.