Boccadigabbia was one of the "hundred farms" of the Bonaparte Administration of Civitanova, a vast estate that for over a century was an important model of modern, rational agriculture; as in all the farming estates of the Administration, in the old Boccadigabbia farmhouse we can see even today an old ceramic tile bearing the name of the farming estate surmounted by the Napoleonic crest of the crowned "N".
Boccadigabbia today covers an area of almost 10 hectares, all in vineyard. It is located in the district of Castelletta di Fontespina, on the hills that rise from the Adriatic Sea to the ancient town of Civitanova Alta.
Its favorable southern exposure and the mild climate tempered by the proximity of the sea, have always proven that Boccadigabbia is particularly suited to the cultivation of wine grapes.
At the end of the sixties, when it was decided to allocate the entire estate to the intensive cultivation of the vine, grape varieties at the time recommended for the production of local everyday wines were planted. Unfortunately, this led to the loss of the older varieties, descending directly by those planted in the nineteenth century by Ing. Hallaire, a French agronomist superintendent of Napoleon III.
To remedy this loss, in 1986 a program of renovation of the vineyard was launched, with the choice to replant French vines already cultivated like Cabernet, Merlot and Pinot Noir, in an attempt, now fully achieved, to reproduce the ancient and renowned quality of the grapes of the Bonaparte Administration.
