Winery

Our four wineries are in the heart of the Veneto Region, between Verona, Vicenza and Venice. This area has been gifted with volcanic and glacial soil which is particularly suitable for grape growing, also owing to its temperate climate and good exposure to the sun.

The Berici Hills particularly, which originated about 60 million years ago after an upthrust of the surface, have very clayey soil that gives their wines a body; in the Gambellara area the dark, fine-grained volcanic rock helps to exalt its wines with a fine aroma and bouquet; while the soil in the Lake Garda area is morainic, loose and with an abundance of resistant sediment which bestows an intense minerality on its wines.

GAMBELLARA

The Gambellara winery, the first cooperative winery in the Province of Vicenza, was formed in 1947 on the roots of a previous cooperative, Enopolio di Gambellara, which had started operating in faraway 1920. Enopolio stood for and evolved into Monopolio, a word that emphasises its monopoly over the Gambellara DOC denomination in this area but that is also the name of the brand new selection that contains little treasures: Garganega, an indigenous vine in all its forms and nuances, from the still, complex Gambellara Classico to sweet Garganega, made from grapes on strings (picai) hanging from rafters, which turn into Recioto and Vin Santo di Gambellara DOC, a denomination to whose creation the Cantina di Gambellara contributed. Gambellara is a land of basalt, dark rock and an extinct volcano that have characterised the area and bestow an aromatic elegance on its wines.

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MONTECCHIO MAGGIORE

This winery was formed in 1955 by 33 passionate founder members headed by Tullio Pranovi, the first Chairman of what was then a cooperative and the leading founder member, to whom a Prosecco DOC Millesimato was recently dedicated in order to commemorate him and stress the importance that the spumante tradition has always had in this firm.
Spumante, but not only: the generous lands of the Vicenza hills have also encouraged growers to create great red wines such as Carlo V, made by drying grapes from international vines (Merlot and Cabernet), a wine that has already received numerous Italian and global awards.
Its mainly varietal wines but also its blended international and indigenous vines have enabled this firm to take a prominent place in the Italian and world catering market owing to its exceptional quality to price ratio, the completeness of its range and its extraordinary flexibility and service.

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CASTELNUOVO DEL GARDA

Ever since its foundation in April 1958, the “Cantina Sociale Veronese del Garda” has committed itself unremittingly to gradual and constant growth starting from 11 founder members and a few acres of land. The firm’s area covers the hilly area south-east of Lake Garda; most of the vineyards are in the controlled denomination of origin areas of Bardolino, Custoza, Lugana and Bardolino Superiore DOCG. The soil here is of morainic origin, loose and with a rich skeleton that bestows minerality. The Cantina di Castelnuovo del Garda is located in a historical landscape that has always attracted visitors from all over the world owing to its proximity to both the lake and Verona, the city of love.

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MALO

Even if this, the smallest winemaking cooperative in Veneto, is relatively young, it shows a considerable degree of attachment to its origins, having a wonderful museum of rural life on its premises. Below the Pedemontana, a high-speed road at the foot of the hills, in a particularly beautiful valley whose inhabitants have been striving harder and harder in recent times to promote their local products, such as Asiago cheese and Durello wine, this winery has a deep sense of its vocation to cherish its natural surroundings. It was to this small corner of the world, therefore, that an important mission was entrusted when it was merged into an enterprise that afterwards turned into Cantine Vitevis: to become a firm entirely devoted to organic farming. The new logo LXI, in fact, stands for this close link to nature and its colours (the blue of the waters, the green of the valley and the brown of the soil) and at the same time stands for the Roman version of the number 61, the year of the foundation of the winery and the number of the winegrower founder members, sixty one in all, who tend the Valleogra winery and its wines day after day.

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Vitevis. A new image with strong symbolic value.

Many have asked us where the idea for this new image came from, which we have decided to use in all our communications, from our new website to labels, headed paper and all printed promotional material.
First of all, the name ëVitevisí, in Latin ëvite visí, means ëstrength of the vineí, but we like to think that it is also the strength of a territory and its people. Vitevis is also an acronym of Viticoltori Terre Vicentine S.c.a., a coincidence that made us understand we were on the right path.

And then the logo: why this big V with a grid underneath?

The V indicates the first letter of Vitevis, but also reminds us of a grape cluster stylized as a triangle, a triangle with three sides, and three angles, like the three wineries making up the cooperative.
Under the V, you can see a grid that recalls the plan of Andrea Palladioís La Rotonda (1566), designed as a country residence for Count Paolo Almerico, and inspired by Romeís Pantheon.
This is, for us, a symbol of the Vicenza area that elegantly expresses the souls of our three wineries.

If we might go further, this grid also recalls Leonardoís Vitruvian Man, in which classical thought and mathematical science coexist. Such concepts are well-expressed in agricultural reality: classical thought is the raw material, the unchanging territory, while mathematics is research, the putting together of the best techniques to better guarantee, satisfy and excite the consumer. All this is Vitevis.

Sede Legale: 36075 Montecchio Maggiore (VI) Italy – Viale Europa, 151 – Tel. +39 0444 491360 – Fax +39 0444 491661
Sede Amministrativa: 36053 Gambellara (VI) Italy – Via Mazzini, 2 – Tel. +39 0444 444012 – Fax +39 0444 444747
Reg. Imprese VI, Cod. Fisc. E P.Iva 03972320240 – Albo società cooperative n. C110267 – REA VI – 368833

info@vitevis.com – pec: vitevis@legalmail.it