As often happens for the good things, the wines of Vignaioli Contrà Soarda have a secret. A recipe that has been handed down from generation to generation for almost a century of history, from father to son, in the Gottardi family.
In 1904, Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Gottardi developed the farm, in the countryside outside of Bassano, as a frasca: they offered refreshment to travelers, thanks to the fruits of the land cultivated with devotion, and quenched their throats, but also their souls, with their homemade wine.
In the 60s, Marcello and Beppa Gottardi transformed the company into an agricultural country inn, where the whole family participated actively, compatibly with school commitments. The Gottardi family continued to produce wine, but with the changing times decided to create a company dedicated only to that activity.
In 1986, the management went personally to Mirco and Gloria Gottardi, who continued the family tradition, with a focus on the use of the typical products of Bassano, becoming one of the most famous and popular examples of typical food in our house.
The vocation to the studies of agro–technical and herbal medicine, made Mirco and Gloria Gottardi fulfill in 1999 a dream called Contrà Soarda, an estate of 12 hectares in the hills of San Michele in Bassano del Grappa, giving rise to the production of wine and Extra virgin olive oil of great value.
In two years of work, they planted 50 thousand of vines and 1000 olive trees, catching dozens of other old plants already existing but abandoned 12 years before, and built a complex bio–architectural structure that is unique in the world, where the production of fine wines takes place especially by hand and using natural techniques related to the peasant tradition.
