Our Terroir
Il nostro terroir
Barbaresco and his story
Vini di Vigna
For us, and for the entire company, producing VINEYARD WINES means doing our utmost to produce and offer our customers wines that are:
Deeply connected to their area of origin
Each wine must clearly reflect its terroir, both in terms of grape variety (our production is almost entirely based on native grape varieties) and in terms of its organoleptic characteristics.
Barbaresco and his story
The origin of Barbaresco wine is strictly linked to Domizio Cavazza. Professor Cavazza wasn’t born in Barbaresco; instead, he was born in 1856 in Concordia sul Secchia (province of Modena).In 1878 he graduated in agronomics in Milan, and thanks to a scholarship he attended the National School of Agriculture in Montpellier. There he studied in deep viticulture and oenology. When he came back to Italy in 1881 he was appointed by Michele Coppino -Minister of Education- to found and manage the Practical School of Viticulture and Oenology in Alba (CN).In ten years he had been able to bring great prestige to this school “created with the ambitious goal of emancipating winegrowers
