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OUR HISTORY

A VOLCANIC
STORY.

A STORY OF RELENTLESS
DEDICATION AND BELIEFS

IN THE BEGINNING... There was a truly volcanic guy.

This story begins in 1934, in the province of Verona when Augusto Dal Cero bought a very special piece of land in the municipality of Roncà, dominated by two extinct volcanoes:
Crocetta and Calvarina.

He knows he has a lot of hard work ahead of him on that uphill terrain, but he is not one to shy away from hard work. To get the land he wanted so badly, he had to sell another piece of land in the municipality of Montecchia di Crosara.

The two volcanoes have been there for more than 40 million years, and time has reshaped them, but up there, you still walk on a dark, almost black earth made of lava and tuff. It is the geological memory of the continuous eruptions and basaltic flows that ended up in the sea's waters around the two volcanoes at the time. When the incandescent lava suddenly flowed into the water, it resulted in the glass-like texture of the rocks that still form that terrain.

Augusto doesn't know about geology, but he does know about grapes. His instinct tells him that if he clears the wooded land on top of the volcanoes and plants a vineyard there, he will benefit from a land rich in elements. The outbreak of war in 1940 put a stop to his plans and forced him to join the army, leaving his vineyard and family behind.

He returns after almost five years, almost all of which were spent on the arid sands of the African deserts, destroyed but fortunately alive and well. There is a need to start afresh and get the farm back on its feet.

Nothing and no one can stop a man who has a dream in his head: to expand the vineyard areas to the top of the two volcanoes. It only stops when it is at the top. Beyond that point, there are only the clouds.

Dal Cero Family - Soil
Dal Cero Family - Francesca

STAYING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND

STAYING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND

STAYING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND

STAYING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND

Those who are used to looking at the earth, working it and tilling it with their own hands know how to recognise it, what it can give and how to treat it. Just as a father knows what to teach a young son, he accompanies him step by step in his work.

When Augustus died, his two sons, Dario and Giuseppe, were still very young. Now it is their turn to expand the horizon of their father's dream: the land on the Roncà estate dedicated to grapevines is gradually growing.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Dario and Giuseppe turned their attention to Tuscany, to Cortona, a land of great winemaking traditions. It was here that they decided to devote themselves to producing great red wines.

They bought the Montecchiesi Estate and decided to plant new varieties of vineyard in addition to the existing ones, mainly of the Sangiovese variety, concentrating on Syrah and later on rosé winemaking.
From the initial hectares, with the passing of the years and thanks to intuition and ability, the hectares of the Montecchiesi Estate dedicated to grapevines multiplied by ten.

In recent times, the Dal Cero family has set up a new project in Valpolicella, an area only 15 kilometres from Soave but completely different in the geological formation.
This operation, carried out by the third generation of the Dal Cero Family - Davide, Nico and Francesca - is the most tangible sign of the continuity of the family's work: respect for the values of the land, sustainability, a direct relationship with the soil and its qualities.

THE PLACE WHERE
PAST AND PRESENT TOAST

EYES ON THE FUTURE The art of outlining the present

Markets today are conversations. They are chirps. They are posts. They are likes.
It is important to understand (but especially to listen to) what people have to say to understand what kind of wine they might like.
If it is true that wine is becoming more and more popular, it is also true that the way it is consumed in Italy, in the world and by the new generations is changing more and more. The expectations of drinkability, taste and flavour become central: all values that have always been part of the Dal Cero family's heritage.


This family has looked at wine to reach out to people from the very beginning. A way of communicating through the senses and with simplicity, not to be confused, of course, with the sphere of 'banality'.

We make naturalness and product properties a true philosophy, which starts with a perfect balance with the land and Nature that host us. This allows us to rely on fundamentally healthy plants and grapes that live in their own environment with the local fauna and their own soil, including the variety of microorganisms.

Dal Cero Family - Vineyard
Francesca Dal Cero

Francesca
Dal Cero

Export Manager

She moves fast on the different activities concerning both communication management and export to foreign markets. Like all women, she knows and can do many things at the same time, not least carefully raising a young daughter. With the certainty that a smile is the best companion even in the toughest negotiations.

Davide Dal Cero

Davide
Dal Cero

Manager for production and cellars

He is a great young man of the vineyard. He can be found driving a lorry at dawn or on a tractor on the paths up into the vineyards and putting labels on his wines himself. He grew up fast in a family that entrusted him with production and cellar management tasks. He has the reassuring strength of someone who carries the experience of three generations.

Dal Cero
Montecchiesi

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