Mantegna Vini is a company born from the idea of an entrepreneur from Lucania, successful in the industrial sector of the Emilia Romagna region, who decided in 2000 to exploit a family plot of land on the most important hill of the town with a vineyard of Aglianico grapes. In the following years, Domenico Amenta, given the results of his good wine produced, realized immediately that in these hills of the town of Irsina called Serra di Gianni and Serra dei Monaci there were all the characteristics to make good wine.
He, then, decided between 2001 and 2002 to buy, near his vineyard, an old farmhouse to be restored and a few hectares of land to plant more vines of the same variety.
In 2004 his first production started, with good results in spite of the young vineyard.
In 2005, in collaboration with his son Davide Amenta, almost 150,000 bottles of Aglianico red and Aglianico white were vinified from red grapes and grapes from the hills of Matera Greco, Montepulciano, Trebbiano and Malvasia.
In 2008 the renowned oenologist from Avellino Angelo Antonio Valentino joined the company.
