Cantine Sgarzi Luigi s.r.l.
About Winery and Wines
The first recognitions date back to 1933, when Luigi Sgarzi was the owner of a small winery which delivered wines to the famous inns of Bologna, in oak barrels on horses carriages. To give continuity, at first, his son, Vincenzo and then his nephew Stefano, who started after his studies in the late 70's to gradually enlarge the production capacity of the winery. Sgarzi Stefano has focused mainly on the export, not only to promote the product of their vineyards, but with the winning insight to deliver the best Italian wines in the world and even in innovative packaging, as alternative to glass. Today, just a glance is enough to understand how the company in Castel San Pietro Terme combines the roots to the future: on one side, surrounded by vineyards, the house where the family lived in the first half of this century and next to it, the new headquarters, strikingly modern, with a wide showroom and an underground cellar for barrels, with new offices and laboratory, with the vaulted roof completely covered with photovoltaic panels and with a meeting room on a tower which overlooks the plain. The family Sgarzi has been growing vines and producing wines for many generations in Castel San Pietro Terme, a city located on the “Wine Route” a gastronomical itinerary, among plain and hill, at the point where Emilia becomes Romagna, a region where the vine has been cultivated from the most ancient times. The first recognitions date back to 1933, when the current owner's grandfather, Luigi Sgarzi, had a small winery and delivered wines to the famous inns of Bologna, in oak barrels on horses carriages. From those early time, Cantine Sgarzi Luigi has always considered the genuineness as the most important goal and it has continued to invest in the estate and in the winery by combining traditional viniculture with modern technologies, not only to promote the product of its own vineyards, but also with the winning insight to deliver the best Italian wines in the world. Year by year
Our mission is to provide quality products at a fair price but not only that. Sgarzi Stefano, the managing director explains: Our wines are selected and tested to ensure quality and continuity and one of the key point of our work is the mutual trust between us and our qualified producers that we have selected in the various Italian regions. A confidence built through constant personal contacts , the same kind of relationship we have developed over time with clients of all latitudes. For this reason I and my staff are travelling continuously to take care personally of our customers, taking part at the major international fairs and welcoming delegations at our winery. At the end we do not just sell some products but we become as means able to convey emotion, culture, history of our Italian way to live.