Maria Donata Bianchi
About Winery and Wines
At the very beginning of the book “La luna e i falò” (Cesare Pavese’s book “The Moon and the Bonfires”) the narrator is searching for his home town to understand what he was before his birth: a hill, a valley, a wood or a house with balconies. I always knew it: I was the olive-trees’ terraces rising from Diano Castello to Calderina Arentino. Grandfather Bensa bought there in the twenties a pink country house. To reach the house you needed 20 minutes on a mule track. Every single time I was dazed by the gentle climb into those ashen – silver clouds and by the cicadas’ soundtrack. I was overwhelmed by a feeling of fullness and inexpressible gratitude that I was not able to direct. It seemed like a young god was showing himself in spring in the perfection of the clean yellow color of the brooms.
The agricultural farm Maria Donata Bianchi is a consolidated reality of the west Ligurian viticulture. Since four generation the history of the family has been intrinsically linked with vineyards and wines. Everything started with the great-grandfather Emanuele, by trading wine and then planting a big vineyard in the plain of Andora. His son Pietro,a brilliant enologist, marked the Ligurian wines, giving an important contribute to their improvement. Emanuele Trevia planted several vineyards in Diano Castello and Diano Arentino and built the new winery. Marta Trevia graduated in viticulture and enology, supported her father with her experience and willingness to achieve new goals, always respecting the environment and a sustainable agriculture. The wines we produce are made exclusively using the grapes grown in our vineyards in Diano Arentino and Diano Castello. The first wine was bottled in 1977. A great love for the earth along with respect for traditional values, have resulted in the production of high quality wines, which are not a personal interpretation of wine making techniques, but represent the respectful transformation of the grape, a reward for the everyday hard work.