Basso Graziano Agricultural Company,
situated between the borders of Costozza and Lumignano on the eastern side of the Berici Hills, an area of ancient wine tradition, has been growing for three generations with entusiasm and professionalism its vineyards, producing always wines of quality.
The micro climate conditions and the peculiar geology that characterize the Hills make of it an area suited for the production of prestigious wines.
Here it produces the DOC Colli Berici wines, named
“Wines of Palladio”, and other types of wines from the local high quality grapes, blended with art in the winery.
Among the DOC wines, special attention must be given to Tocai Rosso, to which an itinerary has been dedicated, sign of the consideration that the CONSORTIUM FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE D.O.C. COLLI BERICI (to which the Basso company belongs), has towards this wine, very original, now typical of the Berici hills.
The company looks with interest at the future, bringing both in the winegrowing and in the oenology fields some improvement, aimed especially to quality.
The cultivation of vines is followed with care, you can find two breeding systems: Spurred Cordon and Guyot, with a plant density higher than 5,000 vines per hectare. Expert appraisers make that nature and the health of the consumer are respected, using in a targeted way pesticide treatments, only in critical conditions, where the achievement of goal–fruit requires it.
Once obtained quality in the vineyard, grapes are worked with a love that only a family can give, joining to this the new methods from the world of winemaking and the modern winemaking machinery for crushing, pressing, replacement of the vinasse and control of fermentation temperatures (guided by a computer system) that allow to extract aromatic and colorant substances to give wine with strong colors and fine and intense fragrance.
