About Winery and Wines
The family of Giovanni Montesor, owner of the Corte Quaiara winery, has been involved in wine making for 150 years and in the past has often taken pioneering paths in vine cultivation and wine production. After an initial collaboration with a large Veronese winery, Giovanni felt a strong need to work in close contact with his land and vineyards. This is how, thanks to his stubbornness and the precious support of his family, the Corte Quaiara project took shape, becoming, vintage after vintage, a true productive reality. The wines of Corte Quaiara are unconventional. They are the best way for Giovanni Montresor to communicate his essence. Some of the vines he uses are unusual for the production area in which they are found, but they enjoy an ideal habitat in the land. Each of the wines has a precise meaning, and is the result of a choice that is renewed vintage after vintage and that gives the courage and enthusiasm to continue in this work.
The soil in which the vines take root is of glacial origin. The entire area was once covered by water that solidified and melted several times as a result of the great glaciations that took place millennia ago. The legacy left by the glacier is a deeply mixed soil, very rich in minerals, but stingy in nutrients. This is a terrain that encourages the vines to give their best, while at the same time imprinting all the wines with a definite savoury note, reminiscent of a sea thousands of years ago. Choosing to make a pure Pinot Noir, vinified in red, is the greatest challenge undertaken. Pinot Noir is a capricious grape variety, which requires a lot of dedication and constant attention. Its berries, small and picked, are very delicate, susceptible to changes in temperature and humidity. Each vintage is a challenge against the unpredictability of Nature, beginning with the winter pruning and ending with the harvest, and in between there is a lot of attention, shrewdness, victories and sometimes even defeats and disappointments. Each harvest is the result of a tortuous path, but when we open a bottle of this Pinot Noir we feel that all the energy used to produce it has been well spent, that the effort has paid off.