WhitServe portfolioCorciano, Umbria · Italy

Il Signor Kurtz

Marco Durante of Il Signor Kurtz in his cellarCorciano, Umbria
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The producer

Il Signor Kurtz is Marco Durante’s small Umbrian project, named for the central figure in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. After more than twenty-five years exploring wine as a drinker, taster, and writer, Marco turned fully to farming and cellar work near Lake Trasimeno.

Fruit & cellar

Source, hands & bottle.

Marco frames each wine as a response to the vintage, grapes, and spontaneous fermentation rather than a fixed recipe. A specialist importer reports neutral-vessel aging with no added sulfur, filtration, or fining; no organic or biodynamic certification is documented.

Trade, tables & good bottles

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