Corte Sant'Alda

A wine cellar… A home… my family home. That’s how things should be, I feel. And, in an unending process that leaves no room for second thoughts, the choices in real life perfected through experience become the “right” choices even in the countryside, in the cellar, in work and in relationships with others, highlighting the values of life and work themselves.

The quality and characteristics of wine are even the outcome of routine decisi...

Here in Corte Sant’Alda the vineyards reconversion started in 1985, a bit blindly. After a bad harvest, I felt the necessity to do something for having healthy and ripe grapes. In 1986 I planted the first vineyard with a guyot training system: Macie vineyard. The measures were a little bizarre, m 0,90×2,60, but they were a good compromise with pergola. We reached the number of 4.500 plants per hectare without changing all the equipments.

If we worked with nature, respected its rhythm, let vineyards to express. If our agricultural actions were respectful, then the work in the cellar will be easy, pleasant and peacefully awaited. The cellar is a place of transition, where grapes, in a very simple way, are transformed in wine and then they can continue their life.