Family

Marilisa Allegrini

Lady Amarone

Marilisa Allegrini is the President and CEO of the Group that bears her name. She entered the wine sector in 1983 and has worked tirelessly to make Valpolicella known throughout the world, so much so that she earned the nickname Lady Amarone. In the 2000s, she began a policy of expansion that was accomplished first with the acquisition of 100 hectares in Bolgheri and the establishment of Poggio Al Tesoro in 2001, followed by the acquisition of San Polo in Montalcino in 2007. In 2008, she achieved her childhood dream when she bought Villa Della Torre, one of the most precious and exquisite jewels of the Italian Renaissance.

In 2017, she was the first Italian woman to appear on the cover of Wine Spectator, the world’s most important and influential wine magazine.

From 2016 to 2019 she was a member of the Board of Directors of SACE and a member of the Board of Directors of the Consorzio del Brunello di Montalcino. She is still a member of the Board of the Verona Branch of the Bank of Italy, a member of the Board of Directors of the Consorzio per la Tutela dei vini DOC Bolgheri and a member of the Steering Committee of Fondazione Arena di Verona.

In 2020, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella appointed her Cavaliere del Lavoro (Order of Merit for Labor).

Giancarlo Mastella

Giancarlo Mastella, a graduate in Education from the University of Padua with a thesis on philosophy, has been involved in the Italian wine sector since 1985. A Corporate Communication Analyst and Copywriter, he boasts numerous consultancy assignments (including Expo 2015 Milan, Italian Wine Pavilion), collaborations with sector magazines, editing of wine publications and planning of cultural events, roles in institutional bodies (including Vice-President Co.re.com, Regional Communications Committee of the Veneto Region) and in various Scientific Committees (including the Italian ‘Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies’, and Atlante dei Territori del Vino Italiano). He is now Vice-President of the Marilisa Allegrini Group, and President and Director of Villa Della Torre in Fumane di Valpolicella, designed by the Renaissance Masters Giulio Romano and Michele Sanmicheli, a Wine&Art Relais since 2009.

Carlotta Mastella Allegrini

Carlotta Mastella Allegrini is Vice-President and Brand Ambassador of the Marilisa Allegrini Group. After studying sciences, she enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in Florence, while also doing part of her coursework at the Sorbonne in Paris, graduating summa cum laude in 2015.

She refers to her choice of university studies as her ‘youthful rebellion’ because, as an independent spirit, she wanted to pursue her own path. Living in Florence over the years, however, has allowed her to spend all her available free time among the vineyards of Bolgheri and Montalcino, learning something new every day and becoming more and more enthusiastic about these projects, which now occupy a special place in her heart as well as being ethical spaces to be protected with the utmost care and attention. Thanks also to her background training, her dream is to create new spaces for hospitality where wine and health, nature and man, art and holistic well-being can all come together: places where balance and peace are generated in the people who stay, live and work here.

Caterina Sofia Mastella Allegrini

Caterina Sofia Mastella Allegrini is Vice-President and Director of Marketing and Communication of the Marilisa Allegrini Group. She graduated in Philosophy in 2015 and in Philosophical Sciences in 2018 summa cum laude from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele university where she was a student of Massimo Cacciari and Francesco Valagussa. At the same university, in 2023, she obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis entitled ‘The notion of the ‘classical’. History of the idea of classicism. The problem of studying the humanities’; she is still a member of the Centre of Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Diaporein Arts.

In 2019, she was an intern at Intesa Sanpaolo’s Global Transaction Banking department, working in the Business Development division. In 2022, she was included in the list of 40 Under 40s in the wine sector by Fortune Italia.

She has been involved in corporate life since her childhood and has always been engaged in marketing, communication and event organization, with the aim of uniting the world of wine with the world of art.