Cantine Marisa Cuomo (Furore Winery)
The cellar at Cantine Marisa Cuomo runs eighty metres into dolomitic limestone, which is roughly the distance a vine root needs to find water on a cliff face that drops fifteen hundred feet to the sea. Up top, the pergola-trained vines cling to terraces so steep that most of the work is done by hand, by the same sixty-seven family growers who have supplied the estate for decades.
The winery sits at five hundred metres above the Amalfi Coast, with a terrace restaurant called Bacco and a view that makes the wine make sense. This is a working estate producing around fifty thousand bottles a year, sixty percent of them white — and one of those whites, the Fiorduva, took the Italian Sommelier Association's award for best white wine in 2006.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who return tend to book the cellar tour before they sort out where they're sleeping. The detail they mention most is the ungrafted vines — this corner of the coast escaped phylloxera, so the roots in the rock are original. Lunch at Bacco afterwards, with a glass of Fiorduva and the fiordo somewhere below you, is a reasonable way to spend an afternoon.
The story behind Cantine Marisa Cuomo (Furore Winery)
The Gran Furor Divina Costiera label dates to 1942, but the modern estate took shape in 1980 when Andrea Ferraioli — whose father had worked these same vineyards — gave the inherited land to Marisa Cuomo as a wedding gift. The two founded the winery together, with oenologist Luigi Moio eventually joining the project.
Over thirty-five vintages, the estate has grown to ten hectares, though only three and a half are directly owned; the rest of the fruit comes from sixty-seven small family growers spread across the Amalfi Coast. The cellar was carved into the limestone beneath the property, and the vineyards — planted on their own roots, ungrafted, in rock that phylloxera never reached — remain among the most unusual in southern Italy.
Good to know
Tours and tastings run Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm, by reservation only — book through the winery website, and note that the cellar and Bacco restaurant have separate management, so confirm which you're booking. The SITA bus from Amalfi takes about thirty minutes; the winery is a kilometre's walk from the stop. Spring and autumn mean easier parking on the SS163.
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What travellers say about Cantine Marisa Cuomo (Furore Winery)
Fun and instructive wine tour. The vignery's Beautiful, typical and original. The quality of their wines are impressive. It's totally worth it and the view is wow.
The winery has incredible views and interesting way of harvesting the grapes. We paid €165pp for tour, cooking class, and lunch/wine tasting. We only learned to roll pasta, and they did the rest. The lunch was less than average and they do not offer the “better” wines in the tasting. For those of us who visit wineries in the world, we want to try the “better” wines so we can purchase a case and ship back home. We are not going to buy wine we haven’t tasted, especially when there were eight people at the tasting and they could have easily opened one bottle to try. We have been to other wineries in Italy who offer the “better” wines (at an even higher price point) proudly. Disappointing, considering we paid a driver to take us 1.5 hours each way from Sorrento.
Definitely the best view from a vineyard we've ever been to, and an interesting history as well. The tour of the winery was well done and our guide was great. As expected, our lunch and tasting that followed was also very nice. The views from the restaurant were a wonderful compliment to the meal, and each wine in our tasting was explained nicely. I wish we would have had a red in our tasting but that's not a big negative to the overall quality and presentation we received. Furore is a little bit of a pain to get to as you either need to pay quite a premium for the taxis in the region (compared to other areas) or wait for a bus and hope that they're on-time. But would highly recommend you take the time to visit as it's worth the trip
To book a tour they strictly demand a signed document and creditcard information first, which we disliked. The cheapest tour costs 85€ excl service charge and can be upgraded up to 130€. At 17:00 we first had a tour around the vineyard, cellar and production area, which was very interesting. Then we had to wait 1.5 hours for the tasting in the restaurant across the road. The view from the terrace was beautiful but we had to pay for any extra drinks in the mean time. The waiter was friendly but strange, explicitly giving every table “special treatment”. The food accompanying the wine tasting was basic with ingredients consisting of mostly bread and tomatoes. The wine tasting included their 2023 white, red and rose wine. This was a shame because for the price of 85€ we expected to at least taste some of their better wines. The wines tasted average to us. Compared to similar wine houses. To top it all off there was no possibility to purchase wine after tasting because the shop had closed (21:00 already we were served the last wine). The only option would be to purchase some wines before tasting, which the staff did not mention.
Beautiful views from the winery! The reason I am giving two stars is because you only get to try only one red wine . They served three whites and one red wine. We didn’t get any brochure explaining each wine . The vineyard is very small although amazing to see how some older vine roots are planted on the side rocky walls. But those grapes are not being used for wine production. Another couple that we met at the hotel recommended some awesome wineries by mount Vesuvious with good red options. Plus getting to Marissa Cuomo winery from Positano is not easy and very expensive! $190 one way. Like I said before only one taste of red! Most wineries that we go to they end the tasting by you choosing an extra serving of your favorite one. Not at the restaurant where they do the tasting. They are too busy attending tables for the restaurant. It would be great if they had a person dedicated to be with the wine tasting customers talking about the wine.
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