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Borgo Santo Spirito (BSS) is a farmhouse inn, a restaurant, a vineyard, is altogether an idea and has been thought and strongly wanted by love for a land that transmits the great strength of nature. Borgo Santo Spirito is located 700 meters above sea level, inside the Park of Etna, in the Santo Spirito area in Passopisciaro, a hamlet of Castiglione di Sicilia, and covers an area of over 10 hectares, 8 cultivated with vines, from which the flagship wine of BSS is made: ARMAGIA, Etna Rosso DOC. Armagia is an Etna Rosso DOC obtained from the vinification of 80% Nerello Mascalese grapes and 20% Nerello Cappuccio. The grapes come from a volcanic soil rich in stones, which often are collected in real pyramids, called in the local language "Armagia", precisely.
We wanted to call Al–Cantàra our company because the wine comes from grapes grown in the territory of Randazzo, in Contrada Feudo, lapped by the river Alcantara, which in Arabic means "bridge". The "bridge" as mean and as a symbol of union of three factors: poetry, art and wine. A good wine is "poetry" and to do that "art" is needed.
This is the message our company wants to convey. No coincidence that we have called the red wine "o’ scuro o’ scuro" from the title of the anthology of Sicilian sonnets by poet Nino Martoglio, and the white wine " luci luci", from " luci luci picuraru", those fireflies of which the poet speaks in the first of his sonnets. The other products have names of poems by Martoglio, too. We thank Prof. Sarah Zappulla Muscarà for the anastatic prints of the poems and Alfredo Guglielmino for creating unique labels.
The Aitala farm is located on the northern slope of Mount Etna. Etna has been, since ancient times, an area suited to the cultivation of grapes and the production of high quality wines, for its peculiarities related to the soil, the climate, the farming traditions.
The wine that is made has great quality and personality, a "wine of fire", and represents in the best way the strength and charm of a unique territory. In deference to the Etna environment and to the health of consumers, the Aitala vineyards are grown with organic farming methods and regulated by the provisions of the EC Reg. 2092/91 by ECOCERT Italia.
The Company
Our company was founded in 1951 as a farm of the Bonetto Brothers, and is located in the heart of the Venetian countryside.
The La Callaltella name originates from Callalta, a naming that Postumia, an ancient Roman road, took over in the late Middle Ages, with the elevation of the road, in order to preserve the land by the repeated floodings of the river Piave.
The Winery
Our winery founded in 1951 has evolved in a simple and continuous way thanks to the constant work and the spirit of sacrifice of two generations.
By sharing the same ideals and keeping pace with new technologies, we continue to grow and to respect our vineyards, conducting targeted treatments, we select and collect the grapes strictly by hand, because we are convinced that the only in this way we can get IGT and DOC wines, healthy and of quality, which we vinify in a simple and traditional way.
Each batch of wine starting from grapes is appropriately controlled in a laboratory and analyzed several times. We guarantee that our wine meets the Italian and European standards, and is obtained by complying with the procedures for control of the various stages of production, of machinery, of containment vessels, as well as of the premises where operations are carried out.
The Territory
Our vineyards cover an area of about 15 hectares on the territory of San Biagio di Callalta, located in two areas close to each other, along the Roman Postumia road known since ancient times for the refined value of its wines.
Visiting the area of Vò, where the Caferro company is located, you are impressed by the Euganean Hills, these volcanic hills that suddenly stand out in the middle of the Po Valley. And you are surprised by the wealth of vineyards that this land, so rich in minerals, gives the opportunity to grow. The Caferro wines are made right here, in a sunny area, in a rich land and with historic company vineyards which allow to obtain quality wines, elegant and fresh, deep and of structure.
For the owners of the Caferro company wine is not only aroma and flavor: wine combines the patience of those who care the vines with experience and knowledge, the effort of those who harvest grapes by hand and the skill of those who select the best clusters; wine is not made solely by chemical reaction but by love and passion of those who have been producing it for more than 60 years, giving more importance to quality than to quantity.
Emotion ... this is what a good wine must inspire in anyone who drinks it.
The Caferro winery offers wines made from native grapes such as:
1) "Fior d'Arancio", a sweet sparkling wine, unparalleled
2) Prosecco, with its 150 days on the lees in post–foaming to 5 atm. that make its bubbles pleasant and delicate
and from international varieties such as
1) Chardonnay: an austere wine, emblem of the harshness of the land where the grapes are grown
2) Cabernet: a wine with a strong character, with a marked smell and mature aftertaste
3) Merlot: that with its scents of violets and undergrowth leaves lovers of red wines with the desire of tasting them again.
Stand out, above all:
1) "Caferro Noir": Cabernet, Merlot, Raboso give rise to a perfect union, balanced and with strong structure ... with this reserve meditation is a must
2) "Caferro Blanc": a chardonnay that after fermentation and rest in barrels, is aged for 6 months in bottles.
3) "Fior d'Arancio", a raisin wine, a wine made from a grape drying period of about 90/120 days, giving rise to a wine with a bouquet of astonishing scents, balanced and full–bodied.
The winery is open for tastings and to get to know, with passion, the wines that are expertly preserved within it.
Ca’ Bruzzo was founded in 1985 when Aldo Bruzzo and Sarah Wallace purchased the small farm in the Berici Hills of Vicenza and moved from San Francisco to fulfill their dream, producing natural wines from 5 hectares of centuries-old vineyards.
Aldo Bruzzo has origins from Vicenza and the company is 500 meters from the house where his father Amedeo Bruzzo was born. Ca’ Bruzzo is certified as an organic farm with a production of no more than 20,000 bottles a year.
Aldo Bruzzo is an engineer who, once left the Bechtel Corporation, dedicated himself to the whimsical wine industry, where his experience and technical ability to solve problems resulted to be very useful.
His philosophy as a winemaker is firmly based on the concept of the small farm, Aldo performs pruning by hand on each of the 15,000 lives in total expressing his personal view about the development of grapes.
Oenology and wine maturation are based completely on his interpretations and tastes.
Mr. Giotto Rodolfo has always worked, since childhood, in agriculture and particularly closely to vines. Once grown up and married to Mrs. Marina, he continued to work the land for the account of third parties, or as a seller of firewood covering far and wide the province of Treviso and the province of Venice. With this activity he had the opportunity to know many people and, realizing that the cultivation of the vine and its transformation into wine was taking root, with many sacrifices the Giotto family decided to buy their first plot of land where they created the first vineyard of their business.
During the early years, the production of the vineyard was intended to be conveyed to a cooperative winery in the area and only a small part of the production of grapes was used for the production of wine for family use; hence Rodolfo decided to devote himself full time to growing grapes and producing wine for direct sales, producing it in a simple and genuine way.
Over the years the increasing demand for bulk wine led to the enlargement of the family estate going from 1.5 hectares in 1965 to the current 12 hectares, all planted with vineyards of different grape varieties.
The opening of a new store in front of the processing cellar dates back to 1981. In the harvest period, and not only, you can watch the production and processing of grapes into wine.
In the early 2000s there was a gradual replacement of old vineyards with new ones, having as a focal point the quality of grapes and wine flowing therefrom. The vineyard sites of the company are all owned, are arranged in various plots, characterized by different altitudes and soils.
The plots on Montello face south and have largely clayey soil, give full–bodied and long lasting red wines (16) and rich in taste white wines (Glera, Millennium, Spumante). The plots in the valley are softer and rich in texture, giving origin to wines with more marked flavours: red wines appear to be lively and ready to drink, white wines express marked flavours and are intended to be marketed in bottles as bulk wines.
In the company, the weeding of the rows takes place mechanically trying to lower the impact of chemistry on the cultivation of grapes. The same philosophy is adopted in the processing of wine using only natural products and reducing as much as possible the use of sulfites, always searching for innovative products and techniques that respect the taste of homemade wine.
Our company is situated east of Treviso, and precisely in Monastier, arose already in the mid–nineteenth century, but only since the early twentieth century it has been directed toward vinegrowing and winemaking of excellent quality, thanks to the processing of grapes derived from highly suited to the climatic conditions of the place varieties, such as Raboso, Cabernet, Malbech and Pinot Grigio.
The winery had been obtained already by great grandfather Giuseppe Nicoli within the premises of an old Venetian villa appropriately restored after the First World War that had partly damaged it.
The vineyards of the Castelletto company, grouped into one large body of 15 hectares, are all located in the territory of MONASTIER, southeast of TREVISO, near the border with Venice, between the BELLUNO Dolomites and the VENICE lagoon.
The land, rich in limestone, clay and organic matter, gives the wines body and structure, while maintaining the elegance that characterizes them.
The facilities are in modern style, with more than 3,000 vines per hectare, and with little vigorous rootstocks to ensure the quality of the grapes.
The main varieties of grapes currently present in the company are:
Prosecco
Chardonnay
Pinot Grigio
Manzoni Bianco 6.013
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Merlot
Raboso
These wines, in turn, are different in several clones that, along with the factor–terroir, express differently their smell and taste features.
Founded in the 40s, it is located in the historic and beautiful hills of Valdobbiadene and is located right in the heart of the production area of Prosecco DOCG, which has always been an extraordinary Land of winemaking traditions.
Our vineyards, which stretch for 8 hectares, are located in an area called Valle Lunga, hence the name of our company.
The origins of this vine date back to the fifteenth century.
We work personally our Land and with painstaking dedication and commitment we follow every single moment of the production system, from vine planting to pruning, from flowering to the control a perfect ripening of the grapes which then give us a good harvest, of course with collection made by hand.
Thanks to the hard work of men but also thanks to our mild and sunny climate, we can transform the arid winter vines in an incredible set of leaves, colors and scents.
For these reasons, those who consume our product, not only purchase a bottle of wine but also the result of a great effort, a true and sincere passion for wine, for vines and for their own Land.
The Pozzobon farm was founded in the remote eighteenth century from the setting up of peasants in the Paolini countryside in Volpago del Montello, in Belvedere locality, directly employed by the Noble Caotorta. The activity of the farm was centered in the cultivation of the vines to supply wine to the aristocrats.
In 1969 Countess Matilde Ponti, heir to the noble Antifone Caotorta, sold much of the Paolini estate to the current Commendator Pozzobon, since then producer and seller of the wine produced in his own countryside.
The activity at the Paolini countryside is characterized by passion for the vineyards and sacrifice in the work, which have always guarded the secret of the transformation of grapes into excellent wine.
Thanks to the prestige gained by virtue of the valuable processing of his wine, Mr. Rosalio Pozzobon was awarded the title of Knight on 27.12.1993, Officer on 27/12/1996 and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 27/12/2004.
The long tradition behind and the captivating taste of the wine produced in the Paolini countryside are the reasons why true connoisseurs have always chosen us.
The best products are created from the love for one’s work, from the knowledge that one has about tools and the ability in knowing how to use them. The Pozzobon farm has been cultivating its countryside land since the eighteenth century, when it was the official supplier of the wineries of a noble family: Caotorta.
The guardian of the secret of those vineyards is Commander Pozzobon, who takes care of his vineyards guaranteeing consumers the same noble quality which since then has been characterizing the wine of the Paolini countryside.
In the tuff and basaltic hills of the wide basin of the Alpone Valley, near the center of which the modern wine cellar stands, with an area of 7,000 square meters devoted to the various departments of drying, fermentation, aging and sparkling making, up to bottling and storage.
The company works every year about 6,000 tons of grapes, obtained from approximately 60 hectares of vineyards owned and 25 hectares of well–selected local farmers who work in close relationship with the Marcato.
The wisdom of the land and passion: these are the cornerstones of the production of Marcato wines, a family–run company, attentive to innovation, projected into the future with the enthusiasm and determination of the new generations.
Each wine of the Marcato has its own soul and its own history, written by the harmony between each grape variety and the characteristics of the area where the vineyard is cultivated, and by the particular harmony between the vine and the ground, occurred over the centuries, refined with experience and technique.
The Zanoni family has been growing vines and producing wine in Valpolicella since the beginning of the century. Pietro gave continuity to this tradition starting in 1998 to bottle the wines made exclusively from grapes grown in the estate. The company covers approximately 10 ha: 1 ha with olive trees, from which you get an excellent Extra Virgin Olive Oil and 6.5 ha of vineyards, all in the Valpolicella D.O.C. area. The vineyards are divided into 3 fields located in the hills north of Verona in the villages of Avesa, Parona and Quinzano. This latter, located in Zovo locality, is the plot of greater dimensions and value, where recently the new corporate seat has been completed.
The winery: the place where everything is transformed and takes flavor.
The wines we produce are the result of the passion of a family that for four generations has been vinifying great grapes to obtain excellent wines, now in the new and modern winery.
In the new basement winery of 350 square meters, designed to be functional to produce wine, the various processes of vinification and aging of the nectar of the Pat del Comel D.O.C. and D.O.C.G. wines take place.
Behind every bottle you taste there is a well–established path, which allows us to get the wine as we have always wanted.
In our vineyards, grapes are all harvested by hand and only when perfectly ripe and, once they reach the winery, they undergo a soft pressing and musts pass to the temperature–controlled fermentation in order to retain colors, scents and aromas in the best way.
The fining of the wines is made according to the tradition, but with the use of modern technologies, and are kept in containers made of steel.
Special attention for the red grapes that are fermented on their skins for 10/15 days, and then the wine obtained is aged in oak casks or small barrels that help to enrich the organoleptic characteristics and to create wines that smell intensely of grapes and pass down, in every sip, a feeling of genuineness.
NASI ROSSI is not just a wine. It is the expression of Maso di Villa, and our way of understanding life, the land, the relationships with friends.
NASI ROSSI is a dream that has become true, the dream to be born again and to live a life of passion and freedom, beauty, atmospheres, love for beauty, respect for what nature can give.
It is a dream started in a place that made us fall in love at first sight.
A wealth of absolute beauty that we wanted to respect and that we want to improve every day, because we have not inherited but wanted, designed and implemented.
A place and a dream that has become our home and the vineyard that we planted all around.
NASI ROSSI was born in our garden and puts us in touch with the outside world in an ideal path that connects people and places. For this reason it is not just a wine but an expression of our desire to share this place, our way of understanding life, the land, the relationships with friends.
For this reason, it is synonymous with absolute quality, both in the vineyard and in the winery.
For this reason, it is not on the market but you can buy it only directly by us.
NASI ROSSI is not a business, not a job, but a challenge that has come from our encounters with people like us who love wine and have been inspired in their lives by the wine culture, preparing themselves technically, working in the field, studying, tasting. These are some of the friends we love to have around, with whom we descend into the cellar to choose from time to time the right bottle (because first you have always to study). They are the ones that are on the label to represent the story that each bottle can inspire.
NASI ROSSI is a wine that expresses our decision to create something unique, to put the best in every way, to continually improve in order to enjoy all this with our friends or with those who can become a friend of ours by sharing this experience with us.
My adventure starts here in Torbe di Negrar. On the high hills on the border between the Valpolicella Classica and the Regional Park of Lessinia.
A land that has always been dedicated to agriculture and to the excavation of the Prun Stone or Lessinia Stone.
"Terre di Pietra" owes its name to the soil of limestone/marl characterized by the formation of layers of solid stone.
Our label, made up of many colored stripes, is meant to represent the different layers of rock that make up our subsoil. In addition, since the miners gave to each course (layer) a name depending on the location or the prevalent use or pigmentation, our wines take up these names. So, they are called: Stopegna, Stelar, Mesal, Rosson and Rabiosa.
You will not find technology in my winery. Only much craftsmanship, I prefer to give space to the hands and instinct than to modernity.
In the drying of grapes I do not use dehumidifiers nor fans, everything happens in a natural way by opening or closing the various openings. I do not hurry up and leave grapes its necessary time.
In winemaking I do not use fermentation tanks nor other types of automated tanks. Pumping over, wine–crushing and all other necessary operations are carried out by hand, depending on how I feel and I see wine.
The result are wines without compromise, very much related to territoriality and seasonality of every single harvest. From the strong acidity and freshness of those produced with the grapes of the hilly area of Torbe, to the softer and more structured ones produced on the fertile grounds of Marcellise.
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