History
The wine cellar Casal Thaulero takes its name from the small village of Casal Thaulero (TE) where the rolling hills of Abruzzo meet the Adriatic Sea. Here resided the noble Thaulero family, of military tradition and from Hamburg, who settled in Abruzzo in the 16th century with a mandate, received directly from Charles V, to oversee this area of Abruzzo.
A major player in this process of economic and agricultural reform was Giovanni Thaulero, who served as secretary of the Società Economica di Teramo, chaired by Gianfilippo Delfico. Thaulero had a philosophical and humanistic background; he is credited with a 'discourse' published in the Annals of Italian Agriculture in 1819. He held various institutional roles in the Kingdom of Naples, including advisor to the Intendency. At that time, the Casale located in the municipality of Montepagano was at the centre of the family's agricultural estate with numerous sharecropper houses where new farming techniques were being experimented; the rural population settled down to consolidate the small hamlet, which was enriched in 1836 by the construction of a small church, financed by Giovanni Michele Thaulero, now located in the centre of the settlement.
In the same years, the famous painter Pasquale Celommi was born in Montepagano, the first of a family of artists representative of 19th-century Italian art, whose works focus on portraiture and hill landscapes and seascapes of Abruzzo. One of his works, conserved in the Roseto Civic Art Gallery, depicts an autumn landscape with a grape harvest scene that depicts the landscape of the Teramo hills, with a girl and a boy frolicking near the vineyards rendered in an idealised image of the bucolic Abruzzo landscape.
To all intents and purposes, Giovanni Thaulero can be considered the forerunner of viticulture in Abruzzo, thanks to the numerous treatises he wrote and the work he did to restore his estates: planting modern vines, experimenting with avant-garde agricultural techniques
This history rich in tradition and passion prompted some vine growers, in 1961, to associate and set up a cooperative winery, to produce and export Abruzzi wines to the world. In fact, in 1968 Casal Thaulero was the first Abruzzi cooperative to bottle and export DOC wines to NAFTA countries.
In 2005, the new winery Casal Thaulero was established in Ortona.