Valdobbiadene, together with nearby Conegliano, terredavino, is, by unanimous recognition, Prosecco’s cradle and matrix. Conegliano, with the Accademia degli Aspiranti in the 17th century and the Scuola Enologica (Oenology High School), in the 19th century, propelled a peaceful revolution that in the space of four hundred years has transformed the upper Treviso area farming world, of which Valdobbiadene is the cornerstone.
The song of the hills
From its spurs, the seething hills stir an endless expanse of vineyards, dotted with plain, ancient cottages. These slopes, of tectonic and glacial origin, conceal in their treasure chest a mineral complexity that is the result of the fusion of the seabed with the dolomite released by the primordial glaciations. Sun, wind, rain and agricultural skills complete the job.
In the beginning, back in the 1400s, 1500s, our ancestors painstakingly embroidered, blow after blow of hoe, the vines, transforming the hilly woodlands into landscape, where we still practise, with maniacal dedication, the art of the land where the heat of the sun becomes wine. A single, undulating stave unites the two towns, on which the farmers carve the music of time, creating, season after season, the song of the hills.
The sea and us
We are perched on the ridge that joins the two wine-producing hamlets of Valdobbiadene – San Pietro di Barbozza and Santo Stefano – at the summit of the most prized Cartizze hill, which holds the world history inside its very bowels: between 20 and 15 millions years ago, this pentagonal gem was covered by a deep sea. On its bottom, different kinds of sand, clay and limestone deposited, layer after layer, and their very slow emersion brought sedimentary rocks to the surface, which, thanks to the action of atmospheric agents and micro-organisms, transformed into sandy soil, as sweet and soft as bread.
The Dolomites, Venice and us
The hills that meander from Valdobbiadene to Conegliano are the little sisters, the handmaidens of the fascinating Dolomites, which, in the summer heat, soothe us with their gentle, perfumed breezes and in the winter protect us, like sheltering arms, from the northern frost. From the meeting/clash of the Dolomite sighs with the marine fragrances, which Venice pushes from the sparkling horizon of the Lagoon, the balanced and healthy microclimate of our villages originates.
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Raising vines is our trade and the Riva is our workplace; our peasant workshop on a par with the Renaissance workshop where Humanism was born
Tano’s wine cellar has been transformed and now extends deep into the multicoloured magma of the Cartizze hill, above which rests the structure dedicated to hospitality
The wine from the grapes of our very steep vineyards expresses its full personality in the classic sparkling wine declinations. Up to the characteristics of the soils and the skills of the cellar