The best wineries in Vicenza.
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.
In 1998 Massimo and Ariana, driven by a great passion for viticulture and nature, decided to grow and vinify grapes coming from the hills of the Agno valley creating MASARI.
The goal was, from the beginning, to create wines of excellence as the most authentic expression of their territory of origin.
In the hills of the valley, nature, still intact, encourages to adopt a very natural viticulture and away from intensive production. It gave rise to a very strict disciplinary of cultivation that will take the name of the rules of the Agno valley for a conscious agriculture.
The attention to detail and awareness of the criteria used during all phases of the process of cultivation, vinification and aging give rise to products rich in personality and authentic expressions of the territory.
Maculan vinegrowers in Breganze
The Maculan family for 3 generations has been vinifying and selecting the best grapes in Breganze, a fascinating village in the hills nestled as a little gem in the Venetian Prealps.
The natural protection offered by the Asiago upland determines an extremely mild climate, which favors the cultivation of grapes and olives. Not by chance, already in the sixteenth century the Venetian nobility loved to spend summers in this area, staying in the splendid villas designed by the great architect Andrea Palladio.
Azienda Agricola Maculan operates as a farm with 15 hectares of vineyards of property in the municipality of Breganze and 24 hectares of vineyards for rent in the DOC Breganze area.
Maculan srl also works with vinegrowers and has contracts of delivery of the entire harvest for 50 hectares of vineyards in the DOC Breganze area.
La Biancara was founded by the will of Angiolino Maule and his wife Rosamaria to invest in their life–long passion: winemaking. In the early 80s they bought lands in the hilly area of Sorio Gambellara and built there house and cellar.
In vineyard and winery Nature is the queen and our personal idea of wine is expressed every year in the bottles we have been producing since 1988.
The first label produced in 1988 is SASSAIA, a white wine that best expresses the qualities of our grape variety, Garganega, present here for more than 1300 years.
Over the years, the search for quality and ecological integrity have marked our work and thought. Today, Angiolino is helped by his sons Francesco and Alessandro in the work in the vineyard, in the winery and in sales.
Together they built a new winery and bought new vineyards, but their spirit of research for quality and their ecological integrity, for the improvement and authenticity of wines, remains the same as always.
The extension of the soil grown with vineyards, now, is of nine hectares of property and three rented, two of them in Sossano (on the Berici hills), where Grenache expresses itself very well. The vineyards are located at a height between 90 and 260 meters above sea level. Moreover, the company cultivates a hundred old olive trees and fruit trees such as cherries, figs, apricots and peaches from which it produces natural jams with the simple addition of sugar.
In 1955, 33 enthusiastic vinegrowers formed the Vicenza Hills Cooperative Winery. With modern equipment, it has always projected research and experimentation, with an operational structure of the first order and a sales network expanded throughout Italy and well represented in Europe and almost all over the world. Aware of its role of protecting the typicality of local wines, it has always focused on quality. In addition, with the support of expert winemakers and agronomists, it ensures the processing cycle from vineyard to sales, through continuous monitoring, processing of grapes and a diversified control of the vineyards, with the aim of improving the management of the land and to produce wines of high quality.
Menti Giovanni is a family–run company founded at the end of the nineteenth century. The founder, Menti Giovanni, who was the grandfather of the current owner (also named Giovanni), began with the trade of wine, previously produced for the personal consumption of the family.
To date, the company manages approximately 7.5 hectares of vineyards planted with Garganega and Durella, located in the classic hilly areas of Gambellara.
With these grapes dry white wines and sweet white wines made from dried grapes are produced.
All work is done directly by the company group, form the care of the vineyard to the bottling process (including sparkling wine). Wines are obtained with the maximum respect for nature and the traditions of the area, are closed with natural cork of excellent quality, and are elegantly packaged with appropriate to the product labels.
For years, these wines have been reviewed by the most important wine guides, and are bought by Italian restaurateurs, European importers, Americans, Asians and private consumers.
Renato Cecchin is a man in love with this area and with the grape variety that is produced here: Durela. Thanks to him, years ago, was saved from removal in favor of more commercial varieties and, thanks to him, the wine made from it has experienced a renaissance that has taken him outside the restricted area of production. Renato is in the company, taking the baton and bringing new ideas and methodologies.
The Vigneto Due Santi agricultural company was founded at the beginning of the 60s, when the construction of the winery was completed. After the purchase of the first country lands, the company continued to expand by incorporating piecemeal the areas of greatest vocation, and now covers an area of almost 35 hectares. Of these, 22 are occupied by the company’s vineyards, which are bordered to the north by a strip with olive trees that occupies a total area of 6 hectares. The rest of the estate consists of forests that frame the company’s territory in a landscape of great beauty.
From the square of the winery you can catch a glimpse of the center of the town, and visitors, surrounded and protected by the vineyards and olive groves of the estate, can breathe full air of the countryside.
The winery is designed to facilitate and optimize all the operations of vinification, from processing of grapes to aging and filling of wine, and very well cared, therefore, is the organization of the spaces according to the workflow. A small but cozy tasting area, finally, allows to deepen knowledge of the company’s products.
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.
Passion, innovation, exclusivity. These are the values that the Mattiello company of Costozza has been pursuing for three generations.
Since the early twentieth century up to our days, its commitment in producing wines of quality has never failed.
There, where a few million years ago there was the sea and now the Berici Hills complex rises, wine has always been produced, if it is true that among the lake–dwelling finds of Lake Fimon residues of Vitis vinifera silvestris seeds were found. Now, the fossils of that period, crushed by tectonic movements and the interference of men, confer that sapidity whicht is a distinctive note of the Berici Hills.
At the end of the Cenozoic or Tertiary Age, in the current Po Valley, the dismantling of the just emerged Alpine chain, generates the so–called “Molassa”: a clastic sedimentary rock which, together with sandstones and conglomerates, melts limestone and clay in those marls which give wine, along with quality, energy and aroma, given by the first, and a vivid color, alcohol and a full body, donated by the second.
At the same time there was the development of that volcanic activity of which the Berici Hills, like the neighbors Euganean and Lessinian Hills, are a legacy. Therefore, minerality is justified in the olfactory endowment of wines, with flavors of lava stone heated by the sun. Nature has done its part, but men has assisted it, taking care, here before than elsewhere, of their health and quality.
Ca’ Bruzzo was founded in 1985 when Aldo Bruzzo and Sarah Wallace purchased the small farm in the Berici Hills of Vicenza and moved from San Francisco to fulfill their dream, producing natural wines from 5 hectares of centuries-old vineyards.
Aldo Bruzzo has origins from Vicenza and the company is 500 meters from the house where his father Amedeo Bruzzo was born. Ca’ Bruzzo is certified as an organic farm with a production of no more than 20,000 bottles a year.
Aldo Bruzzo is an engineer who, once left the Bechtel Corporation, dedicated himself to the whimsical wine industry, where his experience and technical ability to solve problems resulted to be very useful.
His philosophy as a winemaker is firmly based on the concept of the small farm, Aldo performs pruning by hand on each of the 15,000 lives in total expressing his personal view about the development of grapes.
Oenology and wine maturation are based completely on his interpretations and tastes.
The Giuseppe Bonollo Winery is situated in Fara Vicentino a few kilometers from Breganze, a territory of the Vespaiolo and Torcolato D.O.C.
The company was founded thanks to the passion of Giuseppe, who graduated in agriculture and later in chemistry, a passion that led him in 1980 to produce a small quantity of Breganze D.O.C. wine (2,000/3,000 bottles).
Now the production of recognized quality reaches 30/35,000 bottles a year, with the help of his wife Olga and son Matteo, an oenologist graduated at the University of Milan.
In 1923, when Grandmother Caterina and her family moved to Breganze, a land of great wines, and with the purchase of the first vineyards located in the heart of the road of Torcolato and Breganze wines, the history of the Col Dovigo winery began. Today, from the friendship of Battista, his grandson Stefano and Alessandro, united in the consolidated love for viticulture and confidence in the potential of the territory of Breganze, the Col Dovigo wines stem, the fruit of...
The Col Dovigo winery, located along the beautiful wine and foo1d itinerary of the road of Torcolato and Breganze, enjoys a privileged location with an exceptional view over the vineyards of property with and exceptional 360° view, that run along the gentle slopes of the hills of Breganze up to lick the plain.
In each of the members who give their grapes to Cantina Beato Bartolomeo there is one spirit, shared by all. The one to make known, in Italy and in the world, their land through its best expression: the Breganze D.O.C. wines.
The territory lies at the foot of the Asiago upland, on a range of hills running from the medieval Thiene to the beautiful Bassano del Grappa. Gentle hills covered by vines, adorned in spring with cherry trees in blossom and surrounded by stark mountains.
Here, where Andrea Palladio built some of his most beautiful villas, grapes have been grown for more than a thousand years to produce gentle and precious wines.
That are the pride and the honour of this land. The pride of our members.
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Strada Soarda, 26 36061
Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)
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...
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Via Bevilacqua, 2A 36078
Valdagno (Vicenza)
In 1998 Massimo and Ariana, driven by a great passion for viticulture and nature, decided to grow and vinify grapes coming from the hills of the Agno valley creating MASARI. The goal was, from the...
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Via Castelletto, 3 36042
Breganze (Vicenza)
Maculan vinegrowers in BreganzeThe Maculan family for 3 generations has been vinifying and selecting the best grapes in Breganze, a fascinating village in the hills nestled as a little gem in the...
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Via Biancara, 14 36053
Gambellara (Vicenza)
La Biancara was founded by the will of Angiolino Maule and his wife Rosamaria to invest in their life–long passion: winemaking. In the early 80s they bought lands in the hilly area of Sorio...
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Viale Europa, 109 36075
Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza)
In 1955, 33 enthusiastic vinegrowers formed the Vicenza Hills Cooperative Winery. With modern equipment, it has always projected research and experimentation, with an operational structure of the...
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Via Dottor Bruzzo, 24 36053
Gambellara (Vicenza)
Menti Giovanni is a family–run company founded at the end of the nineteenth century. The founder, Menti Giovanni, who was the grandfather of the current owner (also named Giovanni), began with...
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via Agugliana, 11 36054
Montebello Vicentino (Vicenza)
Renato Cecchin is a man in love with this area and with the grape variety that is produced here: Durela. Thanks to him, years ago, was saved from removal in favor of more commercial varieties and,...
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Viale Asiago 174 I 36061
Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)
The Vigneto Due Santi agricultural company was founded at the beginning of the 60s, when the construction of the winery was completed. After the purchase of the first country lands, the company...
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Via Casoni, 1 36023
Longare (Vicenza)
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...
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Via Volto 57 36023
Longare (Vicenza)
Passion, innovation, exclusivity. These are the values that the Mattiello company of Costozza has been pursuing for three generations.Since the early twentieth century up to our days, its...
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Via del Castelletto, 1 36040
Sarego (Vicenza)
There, where a few million years ago there was the sea and now the Berici Hills complex rises, wine has always been produced, if it is true that among the lake–dwelling finds of Lake Fimon...
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via Cavallo, 7 36040
San Germano dei Berici (Vicenza)
Ca’ Bruzzo was founded in 1985 when Aldo Bruzzo and Sarah Wallace purchased the small farm in the Berici Hills of Vicenza and moved from San Francisco to fulfill their dream, producing natural...
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Via Alteo, 23 36060
Fara Vicentino (Vicenza)
The Giuseppe Bonollo Winery is situated in Fara Vicentino a few kilometers from Breganze, a territory of the Vespaiolo and Torcolato D.O.C. The company was founded thanks to the passion of...
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Via Brogliati Contro, 38 36042
Breganze (Vicenza)
In 1923, when Grandmother Caterina and her family moved to Breganze, a land of great wines, and with the purchase of the first vineyards located in the heart of the road of Torcolato and Breganze...
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via Roma, 100 36042
Breganze (Vicenza)
In each of the members who give their grapes to Cantina Beato Bartolomeo there is one spirit, shared by all. The one to make known, in Italy and in the world, their land through its best...
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