The Montezemolo family owned many estates, among which an ancient palace in the upper part of the city of Mondovì, called Mondovì Piazza, is still belonging to them. The estate, called IL COLOMBO, was built in the eighteenth century and later enlarged. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the high tower in Gothic Revival style was built, and at the end of the same, the gate on the square in front of the palace. The Chapel, which perhaps was originally a small independent church, is currently a construction of the beginning of the nineteenth century, showing on its front a more ancient emblem made of stone that depicts the coat of arms of Montezemolo.
The family of Baron Riccati bought the property from the same in 1989, restoring the home, the victim of a long abandon, reactivating and expanding the vineyard and building a winery to produce a Dolcetto, a wine typical of these hills, now much quoted in the industry press, national or international.
In 2006, its property passed to a married couple of Norwegian origin, named Britt and Theo Holm in Oslo, who continued to use the property while maintaining the character of a holiday home. The few renovations are made with the utmost respect and wine production, as well as the care of the vineyards was entrusted, on the advice of the same Carlo Riccati, to Sabina Bosio and Bruno Chionetti, friends with whom he shared a part of the company’s progress, act to enhance the Dolcetto grape variety, which dominates on this hill, in a landscape that has not changed for three centuries. Sabina, after years spent helping her husband, who is leading an important company in Dogliani, develops a work experience and a remarkable maturity, both at the level of the winery, and in vinification, followed not only by her husband, but also by the oenologist Beppe Caviola, who in the work in the countryside has had excellent teachers, the agronomist Gian Piero Romana first and Massimo Pinna later.
This team provides an excellent final result, in our opinion, that reflects in every way the hills where our wines are created. Hills where there is still biodiversity, that allows us to work in a natural and non–invasive way our vineyards. Not by chance, we are concluding the bureaucratic process for the classification of organic wine, to give the final consumer all the guarantees and the naturalness and genuineness that only an area like ours can give.
