The "Vendrame Vignis del Doge" firm is located in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and is situated in the heart of the Friuli Grave D.O.C. in the province of Udine, right in front of Villa Manin which was the summer residence of the last Doge of Venice – Ludovico Manin. From 1,600, Villa Manin was a very important agricultural complex including a vast cultivation of grape vines on the grounds known as "VIGNIS" now property of the Vendrame family. One whole wing of the villa, now a restaurant, was the canteen and the wines, thanks to a new means of communication, reached Austria and the European courts very quickly. This villa, the largest of the region, is famous because on the 17th October, 1,797, the Treaty of Campoformio which signaled the end of the glorious Republic of Venice was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Hapsburgs of Austria. The Venetian city, in fact, was surrendered to Austria, along with Istria and Dalmatia. After the middle of the 1800's, the villa with its canteen and its vineyards was abandoned and left to decay. With the purchase of the lands in 1968, the discovery of this forgotten history, the choice of the trademark, the fusion of the surname Vendrame with the antique name Vignis, and the Doge's horn which is the symbol of the authority of the Doge, life was given to the "VENDRAME VIGNIS DEL DOGE". So, a bit of history is passed into the present and life and continuation is given to a vinicultural and enological tradition from these lands.
