Greppo Propria SAL — a venture of Apex Holding

Greppo Patience, poured.

A winery that keeps its own time. The slope decides the pace; we follow it.

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The name

Greppo is the steep ground

In Tuscan, a greppo is a steep, rugged bank of earth — the awkward, stony pitch of a hillside that no farmer would choose if the flat land were free. It is not a compliment. It is a description of difficulty.

Vines choose it anyway. Where the surface gives nothing, roots go down instead of out, and the slope keeps back in the growing what it returns later, in the glass. The word is old in Italian wine, and it has always been a promise about hard ground rather than easy comfort.

Character is not planted. It is owed to the ground, and paid back slowly.

Greppo is the wine venture of Apex Holding, and it carries a Lebanese-Italian line of descent on purpose — two winemaking traditions that both learned their craft on difficult ground, joined under a name that belongs to the hard half of the hillside.

The slope has a finished wine to be described against now. Greppo Propria is at Dhour El Choueir, in the Metn, and the range is produced and bottled at the property — the address printed on the back of every bottle in the collection.

A steep terraced slope, planted in rows that follow the contour.
The shape of a greppo: too steep to be convenient, steep enough to be worth it.

The craft

Soil to bottle, without hurry

Five stages, each taking exactly the time it takes. Not one of them can be argued with, and not one of them can be skipped.

  1. ISoil
  2. IIVine
  3. IIIHarvest
  4. IVBarrel
  5. VBottle
Layers of stony soil with a single root reaching down through them.

I — Soil

Stone the plough would rather avoid

It begins with ground that argues back.

Poor ground is not a fault to be corrected here. It is the working condition, and every decision after this one assumes it.

A trained vine on trellis wires, leaves opening along the cordon.

II — Vine

The vine answers by going down

Nothing is given near the surface, so the roots stop looking there.

Everything at this stage is restraint. Ask the vine for less above ground and it will go looking for more below it.

A shallow crate holding two clusters of grapes, cut stems still attached.

III — Harvest

One week the whole year turns on

Harvest arrives once, asks for every hand, and does not wait.

Picked in the order the slope decides to ripen, which is never the order that would be convenient.

The end of an oak barrel: iron hoops, staves, and a bung at the centre.

IV — Barrel

In the dark, juice becomes wine

Nothing here can be hurried, and nothing here can be watched.

Wood, temperature and time. The three parts of this process that cannot be hurried and cannot be imitated.

A filled bottle standing beside a glass, lit from one side.

V — Bottle

The last patience is unobserved

Sealed, laid down, and left alone until it is ready.

Nothing is released to meet a calendar. It is released when tasting it says so, and not on the strength of anyone's preference.

The collection

Five wines, out of the cellar

The range is finished, labelled and released. Five bottles, made and bottled at the property at Dhour El Choueir in the Metn: two vintages of Sangue Della Vita, the Sangue 2018 that gives the line its name, and the Bianco and the Rosé of 2025. Turn any of them in your hand below, and order the one you want direct.

A pale marble disc engraved with the Greppo Propria coat of arms, mounted on a wall of rough golden-brown rubble stone, with a row of dark red-wine bottles standing below it between two terracotta urns in rusted iron stands.
The Greppo Propria mark cut in marble, with bottles standing below it.

Order direct

One button under each bottle, straight to that wine's own checkout. There is no basket here and no quantity to choose — how many bottles you want is settled on the checkout page itself.

Every button above opens that wine's own checkout page, hosted by Stripe, in a new tab. Nothing is charged on this page and no card details are entered here. Prices are in US dollars. The cellar also takes orders by telephone on +961 76 444 840.

Visits

By appointment

Greppo receives guests by arrangement rather than by opening hours, so that a visit belongs to the people who came for it.

A visit is arranged directly with the Greppo team and shaped around what brought you — the slope, the cellar, or the glass at the end of it. Ask for what you want to see and the day is built around that.

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Planning a visit

Booking
By appointment, through the Greppo team.
Duration
Set with you when the visit is arranged.
Group size
Agreed in advance, so the day belongs to your party.
Address
Shared once your visit is confirmed.
Accessibility
Tell us what you need when you enquire and we will tell you plainly what the site can do.

Journal

From the slope

Greppo posts as @greppopropria. Entries land in this grid as they are published.

  • Close view of a hanging cluster of dark blue-purple wine grapes, a few berries still unripe green, on a woody cane among large sunlit vine leaves.
    Fruit on the cane, some of it still green.
  • A small single-storey building of rough honey and grey fieldstone with a dark open doorway at its centre, ivy spilling over the flat roofline, lavender along the base of the wall and tall umbrella pines rising behind.
    An open doorway in fieldstone, ivy over the roofline.
  • A round table holding a fluted glass vase, a white jug of dried flowers and a bowl of fruit, with white chairs on clipped lawn beside the dark water of an infinity-edge pool, and layered ridges of umbrella pines fading into haze under a low backlit sky.
    Late light on the terrace, the pines going to haze.
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Contact

Reach Greppo

Greppo enquiries are handled by the Greppo team.

Wine, visits, trade and press all go to Greppo directly. Anything about Apex Holding as a group is faster through the Support Center.

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Greppo enquiries

Telephone
+961 76 444 840
Email
info@apexhldg.com
Orders
Buy direct from the collection
Trade & distribution
Write to the same address and mark it for trade.
Instagram
@greppopropria

Greppo Propria SAL — a venture of Apex Holding.