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About Winery and Wines
Love for a place comes before everything else. We’re talking about a hundred years ago. My grandfather’s name was Rinaldo, he was the real pioneer of all this passion for wine. Everything started in a small plot of land, in a place called Brovia, up on the hills of Gambellara, in a time in which the roads were still white and dusty. Then my father Gian Domenico began its path and he was the one who decided to start the vinification of our own grapes. His wine was the wine of the past, produced in order to support the efforts of the work in the countryside: natural and authentic. Together with Gian Domenico there is me as well, Davide, his son. Since I was a child I started to know the earth and the rhythms of nature, helping my father after school. “Green grapes pay off debts”, I heard saying many times. But I was looking for something more, I grasped the potential of this territory, which is unique for its volcanic soil with precious elements for the nutrition of the vines. That’s the reason why I chose my own production style. In 1997 occurred the turning point. With good courage I decided to do organic viticulture. Starting from the vine I reduced yield per hectare and stopped using fertilizer. I let the roots go deep into the field so that they could absorb the more minerals they can, I wanted the roots to feel free to tie together with this soil forever, as my heart deeply desired. My work began in the vineyard and only in 2006 it found place in the new winery, exactly where in the past you could find my grandfather’s cowshed. In the attic, that in the past was a barn, “Picai” are hung up during winter in order to produce Recioto wine.