The origins of the Capriano wine are lost in the mists of time, or rather, they refer to the cultivation of the vine, a plant typical of the Mediterranean area, practiced at least two millennia before Christ in the homonymous basin, from whose juice this precious drink is obtained.
About 10 km south of the City of Brescia, in the territory of the Municipalities of Capriano del Colle and Poncarale, in the middle of the Po Valley an upland stands: the Monte Netto, the core of this precious D.O.C. in the Brescia area.
It is a very characteristic area, because Monte Netto rises suddenly in the middle of the upland plain, and becomes the main attraction in the area.
Geologically, Monte Netto has the natural right to the cultivation of the vine, being a hill of alluvial origin, formed in the latest glaciation with significant presence of clay. These morphological features, together with the microclimate of the hill, with good ventilation and lower humidity than the surrounding plain, make all the wines produced very distinctive.
Our Consortium, founded in 1994 (the Capriano del Colle D.O.C. has been existing already since 1981), was created to protect and promote this area.
On the hills you find the vineyards that give rise to this tiny D.O.C., small (100 hectares) as much as significant of the great willingness that animates the many Italian wine regions, so determined to defend the value, certainly more cultural than commercial, to face and to reserve a future to a wine of quality, their wine gems.
