Dirupi is the brainchild of Davide Fasolini and Pierpaolo Di Franco; two of the most energetic and talented young winemakers in Italy today; located in the Lombardy region of Valtellina, just south of the Swiss border. Davide and Pierpalo played basketball together during their primary years in school and then reunited while at University where they both studied winemaking. Following graduation both were broke and without inherited family vineyards, however their passion and drive to showcase the great potential of Valtellina prevailed and they scraped up enough money to rent some vineyards. They started Dirupi in 2004 by renting 15 sites working Monday to Friday working to make the vineyards healthy and then on weekends they supplemented the lack of income by working in a local cocktail bar. Today they have made serious strides and improvements in continuing to farm these small and very steep vineyards, all at different elevations, aspects and varying vine age.
