CASA GIRELLI was founded in Trentino three generations and almost a century ago. Quality and tradition have been handed down from father to child
and today Stefano Girelli and his sister, Marina, are reaching
the goals their ancestors set so long ago by becoming one of Italy's largest
privately-owned wineries with an annual production of more than 1.5 million cases of which
92% is exported throughout Europe, the United States, the Far East and even Australasia.
Giovanni Girelli acquired and cultivated the first Girelli vineyard at the turn of the
century, and established the region's first organized winery in 1924. After the war in
1945, he built a larger, more modern winery in Trento where the Company has remained ever
since. Giovanni's son, Renato, expanded business considerably by starting one of Italy's
first subsidiary companies abroad, in Berlin, 1952, and opening up foreign markets. German
sales for Girelli's inexpensive table wines increased by 40% each year and the Company
became responsible for 35% of the total market share for almost a decade. Export spread to
other foreign markets, Switzerland, Austria, Holland and the U.K. Renato's two children, Stefano and Marina, have since taken over the Company. They have
made extensive investments to further upgrade the quality of the wines installing the most
modern, technologically advanced equipment. Today CASA GIRELLI is undoubtedly one of
Italy's most efficient wineries.
At the demand of their foreign customers, Stefano and Marina
expanded their portfolio of wines for export. They looked for estate wineries outside
Trentino, that were producing excellent quality wines. The Company has since contracted
these properties and, as such, CASA GIRELLI is now able to serve its clients across the
globe with some of the finest estate bottled wines from Tuscany, Veneto, Abruzzo, Umbria,
Lazio, Emilia Romagna and, most recently, Puglia, in addition to its native Trentino.
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