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Pier Paolo and Stefano have been farming grapevines for about 15 years, with the enthusiasm and love inherited from their father Domenico and their uncle Mario, on the family’s farmland situated in the hilly area near the little town of Marano di Valpolicella.
The cultivation system adopted is the traditional one of the area, the double Pergola, with an average distance of 4 metres between rows; many rows are located on the “marogne”, characteristic dry-stone walls, which form terraced fields, where often cherry and olive trees can also be found.
Since the beginning of our activity we decided to operate with the maximum respect for the environment, with the aim of utilising the minimum amount of anti-parasite chemicals.
Recently the construction of the new cellar has been completed. The rooms for drying the grapes are located at the upper floor. The ground floor will allocate in future the bottling section (at the moment it is used as a store room). Outside, under a porch, are the modern containers for the fermentation of the grapes and for the wine making process. In the underground floor are located the stainless steel containers for the storage and the aging of the wine and, in a separate room, under brick arches, are the barriques and the wooden barrels.
A few years ago grapes and wine were sold to other wine producing and bottling establishments. Recently, most wine producers have decided to bottle and sell the wine on the national and international market using their own name. For this reason a limited and selected number of bottles of high quality wine is produced, compared with a much larger amount of normal table wine that could be put on the market. |
