Stories always begin in a special place, Matteo Rigoni's begins in Grancona, on the Berici Hills, between a stone house and a small vineyard surrounded by hornbeam and downy oak woods. He did not follow the standard, the intensity and the numbers of the market, he started a story out of place to give identity back to the place. Few vineyards and few varieties, Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Manzoni Bianco and Chardonnay. He works with organic certification and over time he has focused on what interested him, that is, maintaining the identity of the hill, of an isolated, difficult land, but capable of great fruits. He makes wine within the same walls of the house so that there is no separation, but continuity, between the passions and the land. Making wine means collecting all the aromas, including the voice of the red and stony earth, of the sun that rests there, it means maintaining the same respect for the rhythm and times that sometimes must be anticipated, other times waited for. He uses amphorae and without the use of selected yeasts, for the rest he lets the earth, the plants and the care he puts into it sing.
Stories always begin in a special place, Matteo Rigoni's begins in Grancona, on the Berici Hills, between a stone house and a small vineyard surrounded by hornbeam and downy oak woods. He did not follow the standard, the intensity and the numbers of the market, he started a story out of place to give identity back to the place. Few vineyards and few varieties, Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Manzoni Bianco and Chardonnay. He works with organic certification and over time he has focused on what interested him, that is, maintaining the identity of the hill, of an isolated, difficult land, but capable of great fruits. He makes wine within the same walls of the house so that there is no separation, but continuity, between the passions and the land. Making wine means collecting all the aromas, including the voice of the red and stony earth, of the sun that rests there, it means maintaining the same respect for the rhythm and times that sometimes must be anticipated, other times waited for. He uses amphorae and without the use of selected yeasts, for the rest he lets the earth, the plants and the care he puts into it sing.